Where do we go from here?
By Martin Davie:
Introduction
In this post I am not going to add to the discussion about what took place at the meeting of the Anglican Primates a fortnight ago. This topic has already been extensively discussed by a large number of other commentators and I am not sure there is much more to say about it.
What I am going to do in this post is instead to outline what I think are the key issues facing orthodox Anglicans as we move on to the next stage of the life of the Anglican Communion.
We need to be clear about our goal
There is no point in the Anglican Communion continuing to do things unless it knows what it is trying to achieve. There needs to be a goal towards which it is working and there needs to be clarity about what that goal is. In the absence of such clarity there is a big danger of the Communion just doing things for the sake of doing them, which would be a major waste of time and resources.
So, what should be the goal of the Anglican Communion? I would argue that the goal of the Anglican Communion should be to be a mutually supportive and mutually accountable fellowship of churches that is committed (a) to upholding, teaching and practicing the faith set forth in the Bible and witnessed to by the Fathers and the classic Anglican formularies (the Book of Common Prayer, the Thirty Nine Articles and the 1662 Ordinal)[1] and (b) to working together in the face of the three great challenges facing the churches of the Communion.
These challenges are:
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