Justin Welby & ACC Leader Threatened by GAFCON Inroads into Anglican Communion

The mood today in the Anglican Communion is no longer gay (if you’ll pardon the pun), it is downright gloomy, even hostile.

The Global South has risen and is challenging the staid Mother Church, flexing its post-colonial muscles, announcing that the Instruments of Communion (Unity) are no longer relevant. If today’s institutional leaders won’t hearken back to what made them spiritually great and the impetus that brought their missionaries to the shores of Africa, Asia and Latin America, then perhaps what they need is a theological and moral do over.

The Anglican empire, like the now defunct British Empire, is fast becoming moribund and irrelevant. Welby sits atop an institution that contains and controls him, forcing him into a procrustean bed of irrelevance, his statements and pronouncements weakened and restrained by what the state passes in its parliament.

If the state wants same-sex marriage, one can politely say ‘not in my house’ but sooner or later it is a done deal, back-doored in by calling it a “blessing”, when to all intents and purposes it is a marriage by any other name. No one is fooled. The Synod plays mental and verbal gymnastics over “the meaning of”, but in the end we all know where this will end.

And that is why the Global South, watching the hyper verbal British play word games have finally had enough and declared that they will no longer play ball with Welby and so establish a new Anglican identity, complete with its own Synodical Councils, archbishops, bishops, networks and missions. A new day has dawned, the old has, or is in the process of passing away and the birth of a new movement of the Spirit has begun. And Welby cannot stop it, even by demeaning it as a “ginger group”.

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