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Apostasy, heresy, tragedy, and irony. Should be the title of the 2022 Lambeth Conference taking place in England rather than “God’s Church for God’s Word.” while the truer tagline for what is taking place is “God’s Church for Satan’s Teaching,” or “God’s Church conforming to the World.”

From The Lambeth Conference website;

“Convened by The Archbishop of Canterbury in 2022, the Lambeth Conference is a gathering of bishops from across the Anglican Communion for prayer and reflection, fellowship and dialogue on church and world affairs. With the theme of ‘God’s Church for God’s World – walking, listening and witnessing together,’ the conference will explore what it means for the Anglican Communion to be responsive to the needs of a 21st Century world.”

This blasphemous, heretical conference with apostasy as its real theme will impact what passes for Christianity in churches worldwide.

The 650 bishops from around the world being forced to adopt the unsound doctrines of Satan that have been unleashed upon the so-called Anglican church.

Declaring they are “God’s Church for God’s Word” while they vehemently oppose the Word of God and are revising their resolution to uphold marriage between a man and a woman to now allow marriage between a man and a man, a woman and a woman.

While tossing in discussion on climate change and other worldly topics at the conference.

This is the state and condition of what calls itself Christianity today. Christian leadership today.

Is it any wonder the world is imploding, more and more gone mad, and insanity becoming the norm?

There are two short articles below pertaining to this.

Along with this related reading: Reaffirmation of traditional stance on marriage and sexuality dropped from Lambeth Call

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Friday, July 29th, 2022

 

Bishops who deny the Gospel ‘should be removed from their positions’

 

28 July 2022

By Staff Writer

Reprinted from Christian Today [in the U.K.]

 

Christian Concern leader Andrea Williams has expressed her disappointment over changes to a Lambeth Call on marriage and sexuality.

The Call on Human Dignity will be discussed and voted on by 650 Anglican bishops at the Lambeth Conference next week.

It has been revised to remove a reaffirmation of the 1998 Resolution 1.10, which upholds marriage as a union between a man and a woman, and rejects homosexual practice.

The change was made after pressure from liberal bishops, including those in the U.S. Episcopal Church and Church in Wales.

Ms. Williams, who is also a lay member of the Church of England General Synod, said that the views of traditionalist Anglicans were being silenced.

She said that “apostate” bishops should be removed from their positions.

“Faithful Anglicans around the world stand on the biblical principle of marriage between a man and a woman as taught in Scripture, reflected in the doctrine of the church throughout history and re-stated in Lambeth 1:10,” she said.

“Their voice is being silenced by a vocal and powerful minority of apostate Western and American Bishops.

“These bishops that deny the gospel should be removed from their positions rather than be allowed to use their influence to bully faithful Anglicans out of the space that is rightfully theirs.

“It is a great disservice to the gospel, its power and witness when Lambeth Palace allows this to happen.”

 

What now for orthodox Anglican bishops at the Lambeth Conference?

 

27 July 2022

By Julian Mann

Reprinted from Christian Today [in the U.K.]

 

How are the orthodox Anglican bishops at the Lambeth Conference going to react now that the organisers have caved in to politically correct pressure to drop the traditional Christian sexual ethic as the “mind of the Anglican Communion”?

There should be no doubt that this is what the organisers have done in changing the wording of the Lambeth Call on Human Dignity.

Liberals in the Anglican Communion’s Western churches last week created such a furore that they have succeeded in preventing Lambeth Resolution 1.10 – which the 1998 conference passed “rejecting homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture” – from being reaffirmed at Lambeth 2022.

The study document circulated last week to the 650 bishops from around the world attending the conference now underway in Canterbury was unequivocal about what “the mind of the Anglican Communion” was on the Christian sexual ethic:

“It is the mind of the Anglican Communion as a whole that same gender marriage is not permissible. Lambeth Resolution I.10 (1998) states that the ‘legitimizing or blessing of same sex unions’ cannot be advised.

“It is the mind of the Communion to uphold ‘faithfulness in marriage between a man and a woman in lifelong union’ (I.10, 1998). It is also the mind of the Communion that ‘all baptized, believing and faithful persons, regardless of sexual orientation are full members of the Body of Christ’ and to be welcomed, cared for, and treated with respect (I.10, 1998).”

But following an apologetic statement on Monday from the chair of the Lambeth Calls Sub-group, Bishop Tim Thornton, the organisers this week changed the wording. Bishops will now vote on a radically different version of “the mind of the Anglican Communion”:

“It is the mind of the Anglican Communion as a whole that ‘all baptised, believing and faithful persons, regardless of sexual orientation are full members of the Body of Christ’ and to be welcomed, cared for, and treated with respect (I.10, 1998).

“Many Provinces continue to affirm that same gender marriage is not permissible. Lambeth Resolution I.10 (1998) states that the ‘legitimizing or blessing of same sex unions’ cannot be advised. Other Provinces have blessed and welcomed same sex union/marriage after careful theological reflection and a process of reception. As Bishops we remain committed to listening and walking together to the maximum possible degree, despite our deep disagreement on these issues.”

So, according to the revised Call on Human Dignity, “the mind of the Anglican Communion” is now that Christians can legitimately agree to disagree on the traditional biblical sexual ethic.

The heterosexual nature of marriage and the exclusive role of sexual love within that God-created institution have now become a secondary issue. Anglicans can be “faithful” whatever view they take on the question of whether or not God approves of same-sex marriage and of sex outside man-woman marriage.

But that is not how the majority of Anglicans globally see it. The orthodox archbishops and bishops of the Anglican churches in Nigeria, Uganda and Rwanda are boycotting the conference because they are not prepared to compromise on that issue. Given the politicking at Lambeth 2022 over the Call on Human Dignity, their stand has very arguably been vindicated.

Around 270 orthodox bishops in the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA), led by the Archbishop of South Sudan, Justin Badi Arama, are attending Lambeth. What should they do now that Lambeth 1.10 has effectively been ditched?

A parable may shed some light on that question – please note that this is a parable and not an allegory, so not every element in the story corresponds to a current factual or legal reality:

A Christian teenager is invited to a party by a member of the cool set at his or her school. “You can go,” their parents say, “provided there are no illegal drugs at the party.”

The teenager is assured by their friend that the party will be drugs-free. “Great, I look forward to it.”

But come Saturday night a strong whiff of marijuana is wafting over the dance floor and ‘golden brown’ is being sniffed on the stairs and in the kitchen.

The teenager says to their friend: “But you assured me there would be no drugs here.”

“Chill out, dude. Can’t we just agree to differ on this? You don’t have to take them. Why be so holier-than-thou towards those of us who do?”

This Christian teenager thus faces a choice between acceptance in their peer group and obedience to their parents’ word.

Lambeth 2022 is the Archbishop of Canterbury’s party. Justin Welby is the host. What should the orthodox bishops, who accepted his invitation and have come to his party, do now that he has permitted a primary issue of biblical faithfulness to be relegated to a secondary status and thus relativised?

Should they not do what the teenager in the parable should have done and leave the party?

Julian Mann is a former Church of England vicar, now an evangelical journalist.