After GAFCON 2018: Can secularism build a civilisation?
by Joseph D’Souza, CT:
Last week, I attended the 2018 Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) in Jerusalem. Around 2,000 archbishops, bishops and Anglican church leaders from North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia came together to pray and consider the future of the global Anglican church. Some estimate that it was the largest international gathering of Anglican leaders in over 50 years.
GAFCON rose out of the Anglican church’s struggle with an issue that has become the leading cause for disagreement in Christianity: same-sex marriage. It’s the reason why hundreds of Anglican bishops in the southern hemisphere — who hold on to the traditional biblical view of marriage — have strongly differed with many of their more liberal counterparts in the West.
Still, as important as it might be, the issue of same-sex marriage is only the tip of the iceberg.
The real question Christians all over the world must answer today is whether or not they will hold on to the authority of Scripture and the gospel the church has historically believed in.
As an outsider, I’ve observed how the West – and America specifically – has been steadily inching toward secularism, which is the absence of God in life.
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