Nielsen’s Nook

For those following the crisis in the Episcopal Church, the 2008 Global Anglican Futures Conference that concluded just last week has issued a Statement on the Global Anglican Future, outlining the direction they see as best for the Anglican Communion. The GAFCON members officially, launch the GAFCON movement as a fellowship of confessing Anglicans, publish the Jerusalem Declaration as the basis of the fellowship, and encourage GAFCON Primates to form a Council.

Presently, there is a crisis in Anglicanism. Large numbers of Bishops are currently meeting in Jerusalem for the first ever Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON 2008). They are meeting to discuss the future of the Anglican Communion and we pray give leadership to it at a time when it is being systematically ripped apart. I commend to you the blog of Fr Greg Brewer who is on the Board of the Anglican Relief and Development Fund and Rector of the Church of the Good Samaritan, Paoli, PA. His blog is a chronicle of his experience first hand at GAFCON. Dr Os Guiness spoke at GAFCON on the Gospel and Secularism. Here’s a quote from Fr. Brewer’s blog chronicle:

Dr. Os Guinness on “The Gospel and Secularism”: The whole modern world represents the greats opportunity for the Gospel since the apostles. It also represents the greatest challenge to the Gospel. Never underestimate the profound anti-Christian assumptions of secularism. Never have evangelicals had clearer views on the authority of Scripture, but never has evangelical behavior been more chaotic and permissive that it is today. Those who choose to look to contemporary culture to guide their faith decisions, lose the authority of Scripture and cut themselves off from Christianity around the world.” (This quote was edited for spelling)

You may listen to the address via streaming audio on the GAFCON website or playing it here locally using the link above.