Church Society on the Kigali Commitment — the statement from GAFCON 4
By: Lee Gatiss, from Anglican Ink.
In a couple of weeks, King Charles III will swear in his Coronation Oath to maintain and defend “the true profession of the gospel… the Protestant Reformed religion”. Sadly, the current leadership of the Church of England has chosen not to maintain and defend this faith but to subvert and replace it with something else more amenable to modern culture. It should be a matter for great rejoicing, however, that the GAFCON conference in Kigali, Rwanda has today chosen to reaffirm the commitment of the vast majority of the global Anglicanism to the historic orthodox faith.
The Chairman of GAFCON encouraged us in his opening address to be “a repenting church, a reconciling church, a reproducing church and a relentlessly compassionate church.” This is the church we want to be. We were reminded that the purpose and mission of the church is to make known to a lost world the glorious riches of the gospel by proclaiming Christ crucified and risen, and living faithfully together as his disciples.
The 1302 delegates from all over the world said in their statement released today that “we delighted in our unity in Christ and the love that we share.” They also stated clearly that “The current divisions in the Anglican Communion have been caused by radical departures from the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some within the Communion have been taken captive by hollow and deceptive philosophies of this world (Colossians 2:8).” They made it clear that “fellowship is broken when we turn aside from God’s Word or attempt to reinterpret it in any way that overturns the plain reading of the text in its canonical context and so deny its truthfulness, clarity, sufficiency, and thereby its authority.”
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