COMMENTARY ON THE GAFCON LETTER TO THE CHURCHES Part Seven: Reaching Out to God’s World

Aug 7, 2018 by Jill

by Stephen Noll, Contending Anglican:

This is the seventh and final post explaining the “Letter to the Churches.” The first six posts can be found: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five and Part Six. In this seventh entry, I shall exposit the final section of the Letter titled: “Reaching Out to God’s World” and its conclusion. Final note: I hope to consolidate the seven parts of this Commentary into a free downloadable ebook.

As indicated in Letter’s opening epigraph from Acts 1:8, Gafcon 2018 met not only as a token of the present witness of the wide global fellowship of the Anglican Communion but also under the ongoing mandate to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth.

God So Loved the World

Our conference theme has been “Proclaiming Christ Faithfully to the Nations.” We have received the gospel through the faithful witness of previous generations. Yet there are still billions of people who are without Christ and without hope. Jesus taught his disciples: “this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations” (Matthew 24:14).

We repent for the times and seasons when we have only preached to ourselves and not embraced the difficult task of reaching beyond our own cultural groups in obedience to God’s call to be a light to the nations (cf. Acts 13:47). In faith and obedience, we joyfully recommit ourselves to the faithful proclamation of the gospel.

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