And so…
Gafcon General Secretary’s farewell blog post:
On January 1st Archbishop Ben Kwashi became General Secretary of Gafcon in succession to me.
I cannot say how pleased I am to welcome him into this role. I admire him very much as a wise man of God, and think that his passion for prayer and the sharing of God’s word will be an immense encouragement to the Gafcon movement as we seek to, ‘proclaim Christ faithfully to the nations.’ God has also endowed our brother with spiritual perceptiveness and courage – gifts he will certainly need.
When I think of the message of Jerusalem 2018, ‘Proclaim Christ Faithfully to the Nations’, I am always so glad that the word ‘faithfully’ appears. All our churches have many failings and even scandals. We are very far from perfect. But the aim of proclaiming Christ faithfully gives us a purpose, a goal, and a character.
Why?
Well, even in the New Testament times, we hear that there were those who came proclaiming ‘another Jesus than the one we proclaimed to you’ and hence a different Spirit and a different Gospel (2 Corinthians 11:4). Merely using the name ‘Jesus’ does not mean that you are talking about the real Jesus and the Gospel in all its truth and glory. We all need to have our Gospel shaped by the Biblical witness itself.
Of course we are helped to do this by the wisdom of those who study the text and the wisdom of those who have gone before us. But the only infallible guide to the truth about Jesus is the Scripture, the word of the living God.
See also: Forward in Faith North America pledges loyalty to Gafcon, but asks for resolution of the women’s orders question, from Anglican Ink
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