Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has called for a meeting in January 2016 to discuss how Anglicans should move forward. Head of the Global Anglican Future (GAFCON). Archbishop Eliud Wabukala, primate of Kenya, stated that restoring the Bible to the heart of the Anglican Communion should be the goal of the meeting.

“It is on this basis that the GAFCON Primates will prayerfully consider their response to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s letter,” said Wabukala. Welby suggests restructuring the communion as a looser association that maintains relations with liberal churches of North America that recognize and support gay marriage, as well as with conservative African churches that reject gay unions of all kinds.

“Our confidence is not in any structural reorganization, useful though it may be, but in the saving grace of… Christ and in the abiding truth of the Bible,” said Wabukala. GAFCON said it was
somewhat encouraged that Welby had opened the door of the meeting to Archbishop Foley Beach, who heads the Anglican Church in North America, a rival to the US Episcopal Church.

Source: Religion News Service; Christian Headlines

Bible Study: Zechariah 1:2-4

PRAISE God for a strong, faithful Anglican Church in the South. Pray that He will mark out with power and grace those who honour Him at the meeting.