The AAC and Gafcon
By Canon Phil Ashey:
We have just finished a meeting with our American Anglican Council (AAC) Board of Trustees. It was a great time of assessing the Canterbury gathering of Anglican Primates just a few weeks ago, our work there with the GAFCON Primates, a group representing the majority of the world’s Anglicans, and the possibilities and challenges before us.
Most people don’t know this, but the AAC has supported and worked with GAFCON’s leaders since the movement began in 2008. Our Board of Trustees has reaffirmed its support for the GAFCON movement. We see in its leaders the hope for a future Anglican Communion that finds its identity in Jesus Christ and Biblical faithfulness rather than institutional loyalty. Regretfully, we do not believe the next three years of sanctions on The Episcopal Church (TEC) (or “relational consequences,” as the Archbishop of Canterbury defines it) will produce the results for which most of the Primates hoped and prayed. Will the flood of false teaching from North America (TEC and the Anglican Church of Canada) continue to sweep into other Churches and regions of the Anglican Communion? Whatever the future may hold, we believe we have three years to build an ark.
Our vision supports that commitment. We reaffirmed the vision of the American Anglican Council:
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