Well, I don’t have independent confirmation of this, but I wouldn’t find it too hard to believe.
THE ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury’s Anglican Covenant is not scheduled to be implemented until 2015, the Presiding Bishop of the Middle East and Jerusalem reports.
In a statement released following the Feb 29 to March 4 meeting of the joint standing committee of the Anglican Consultative Council and the Primates, Bishop Mouneer Anis of Egypt stated he had “lost many of the hopes” he had had for preserving the Anglican Communion from collapse due to delay, obfuscation and mendacity.
A member of the primates’ joint standing committee, he described an institution trapped in a culture of bureaucratic inertia that saw “conversation” as an end in itself. Bishop Anis said he was “shocked” to hear from the staff of the ACC the Anglican Covenant would not be enacted until 2015.
This “gives the impression that we are not in a state of crisis and that there is no desire to move towards a solution. In my opinion, if we wait until 2015 or even 2012 the Communion will be fragmented,” he wrote.
Too little, too late.
Peter – Back in July 2005 I was given a verse from Psalm 37 – v.15 states – “Their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken” regarding the future of the Anglican Church. Watching TEC and their misuse of the Canons to destroy the faithful, the sword is definitely entering their own hearts and the organisation (I do not say Church) will be broken. After Lambeth their will be nothing to restrain the realignment of the Anglican Communion and God is preparing His remnant to defend the faith whilst all that is not of God falls away.
I agree with Pauline…..All this Covenant not being implemented until 2015 would mean is that +++Cantaur is doing the only thing he knows how to do…… trying to buy time….. buying time so that the revisionist regime that he heads up will have more takeover time….. time to infiltrate the Global South and the Southern Cone and other Conservative Provinces.
No more buying time for Canterbury!
They go about their works cutting up whom they wish without regard for anything except their own greedy, selfish selves. None of them are worthy to stand in the company of Archbishops Venables, Akinola, Jensen ‘et al’. NONE OF THEM!
Well, here is news that does not surprise me. I had hope for the Covenant but am now admitting that the re-allignment will go forward with the Orthodox majority forming a Church affimring biblical Christianity and the liberal revisionist Church coming together. We see this already taking shape in advance of Lambeth.
Let us pray that the New Reformation that God is bringing about will give glory to Him as we seek to be faithful to Jesus.
Jonathan
I totally agree with Jonathan
Blessings
Wendy
The communion will be more than fractured by 2015.
Parts of it will be ground into dust.
He Just Doesn’t Get It, does our Archbishop?
I think the Primate, having now read a draft copy of the Covenant, realizes he cannot sign it so again is trying to hold us in the conversation and buy time. For what purpose I am not sure.
It has been suggested to me by a revionist friend that if they (the revisionists) can keep us in the conversation long enough, we (the orthodox), will capitulate as laws across our land are passed to allow same-sex civil marriages. Unfortunatley they have missed the significance of the Authority of Scripture to us and are homing in on the hot topic not the primary argument.
I have just added my latest reflection – the adding of the essential (worship in Anglicanism) to the draft covenant:
http://www.liturgy.co.nz/worship/matters.html