You that know the Anglican Church of Canada is headed in the wrong direction. Ask yourself, (you that may be willing to stay even though you know the state of the ACC is wrong) how can you ask some of your fellow Christian Brothers or Sisters, to accept the direction of the Anglican Church of Canada when you yourself know it is wrong and that you yourself can not accept it? To stay and to work for change, to a certain extent, means to accept that direction.

I love the words, “the Anglican Church has always been able to stay together even with a wide divergence of opinion and practice.” These words are poison, they are words that will lead many to eternal damnation. They are words, employed by the liberal groups and those who would call themselves Orthodox or conservative (who have given up the work for change), to try and to keep the conservative QUIET, it is a cop out.

Just look at the whole idea of women’s ordination. It is a very unpopular position today in the Anglican Church of Canada, to say women’s ordinations are not valid. They have no scriptural basis, Paul tells us what a Bishop, Priest or Deacon should be, that they are to be a husband of one wife and that he should govern his home, that if he could not govern his own home how could he be expected to govern the flock entrusted to them.

Scripture does speak about one position held by women and that is the position of the Deaconess, but it is generally accepted that this order was a lay order and not an ordained order. With the issue of women’s ordination, we must get away from the word ministry when we talk about the several roles we all have within the Church. Ministry was given to the Church as a whole, and we all have a part to play in that ministry.

A Bishop by himself can not constitute the ministry of the Church, neither does the roles the Priests or Deacons, Sub-Deacons, Deaconesses, Monks, Nuns and other Religious, and the roles we play as lay folk in the Church. It is the whole working together that constitutes ministry and that ministry, is the Ministry given to the Church, AS A WHOLE.

To say this today in an Anglican Church of Canada meeting synod or what have you, you would be not only be black balled but you would be shouted down. The argument of women’s ordinations, is over, it is a done deal.

Today the issue of same sex blessings has no scriptural basis, it is basically the wind of the popular culture of our day. The way things have proceeded in the Anglican Church of Canada, it is the same road that women’s ordinations had gone. Right from the Windsor Report (Windsor Report #1 [Emmaus], women’s ordinations, and Windsor Report #2 [Emmaus] Blessings of Same Sex Couples and Ordination of practicing Homosexual individuals) the Anglican Consultative Council to the very actions of Forward in Faith (Women’s Ordinations) and Anglican Essentials, and Essentials Federation (same sex blessings and ordinations of practicing homosexual individuals). It is all the same. Hay don’t take my word for it go look it up for yourself.

With today’s issues same sex blessings and practicing homosexual clergy and ordinations, the argument is over the mind of General Synod has been made up. The ground that these liberal groups in the Church today gained, and they know they have gained, they know that they have gained, and a lot of ground in these last 50 years. They will just organize themselves the more while the conservative groups will be inhibited at every attempt that they will try to organize. Conservatives in the Church are themselves divided on many issues for example women’s ordinations and the liberal groups know this, they have and will continue to use it against them, to divide and to conquer.

The Anglican Church of Canada can no longer claim to be apart of the ONE, HOLY CATHOLIC, AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH. I even question weather that the Anglican Church of Canada, may be even called a Church anymore.

May God help us, may the Holy Spirit be our guide, and may Jesus be our way, truth and life.

Blessings

Rob

Listening means for these people that “we” (Orthodox Anglicans) are the ones who have to sit in our little chair and listen, to take everything that Mr. Robinson or Mrs. Jefferts-Schori or Mr Ingram and the members of their prophetic groopies, as “divinely inspired”.

There comes a time when you know the ship (that was suppose to bring you to safe harbour) is sinking, the getting to that safe harbour means leaving that ship. I know that means for many leaving what they feel and think as being comfortable, even though the storm is raging and fear is gripping at every side.

Truth that is mixed with lies is not wholesome even when you may see some truth, but truth that is not pure is not truth at all. The truth that has been handed to us in Holy Scripture, the Gospel, is our beacon, it shows the way, (the way, the truth, and the life) that is only found in Jesus Christ, and not in todays popular culture.

But hay, there I go again all hurtful and hateful, again!

May God help us, may the Holy Spirit be our guide, and may Jesus be our way, truth and life.

Blessings

Rob