The hierarchy of the Anglican church out of the chaos and divisiveness of their 2022 Lambeth Conference is concerned greatly with regard to unity within the church body, which they should be. But first must come true faith, sound doctrine teaching, and OBEDIENCE to God’s Word BEFORE there can be unity.
The unity as proposed, which is this “let’s all get along no matter what we may believe” being pushed ought not to be the main priority. Ironic and hypocritical that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, says, “So let us not treat each other lightly or carelessly. We are deeply divided. That will not end soon. We are called by Christ himself both to truth and unity” when it is the Archbishop of Canterbury who is one of the leading proponents of permitting practicing homosexuals to hold positions of leadership and preaching in churches, and it is he who is more concerned with appeasement and accommodating the world than obeying the Word of God. Unity only comes when those assembled are of one mind regarding the Word of God and that one-mindedness is founded deeply in the inerrant Word of God.
It is clear the Archbishop of Canterbury’s truth is that of almost every person in the world today. Relativistic. He is not speaking of the truth of Scripture, for if he were he would not be embracing and campaigning to permit practicing homosexuals to lead churches and preach. Or allowing women to be preaching clergy in churches which directly goes against God’s Word. Look it up in the Bible if you don’t know of this or believe me.
Yes, no wonder the condition of the professed church is as it is globally. So many divisions. Due to so many false teachers and so much false doctrine and so much throwing the doors open to Satan to preach from the pulpits rather than men of God lead by the Holy Spirit abiding in the Scriptures.
Yes, the professed Christian Church is a mess. Very ill and floundering. The body is diseased for one reason and only one reason — the body refuses to obey the Head because the body does not really know the Head and the body believes it can do better than the Head and does not need the Head except to use His name in vain for their use when they need the name of Jesus Christ.
The ecumenical movement is the pursuit of men, not pursuing God or abiding in God’s Word. And it is because of this and all the corruption within, the worldliness, the unsound teachings, and being more of the world than of God and Christ that the ecumenical movement is enduring what it is.
Faith in and obedience to God’s Word. THEN comes unity. Without faith in and obedience to God’s Word, all of it, not adding anything, not omitting anything, not accommodating the world, being of one mind in Christ and the Scriptures comes unity. Not until then. There is such a chasm in beliefs and what are the priorities with some wanting to follow the Word and many others wanting to follow the world there will never be unity because Satan is the ringmaster dancing a jig in glee at these gatherings.
Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
Global Church is experiencing an ‘ecumenical emergency’
06 August 2022
By Staff Writer
Reprinted from Christian Today [in the U.K.]
A Catholic leader has warned Anglican bishops meeting in Canterbury that divisions between Christians have become an “emergency” in urgent need of addressing.
In a message to the Lambeth Conference, Cardinal Kurt Koch, the Roman Catholic Church’s ecumenical lead, said that despite decades of progress in improving relations, urgent steps must be taken to foster greater unity between Christians.
“This ecumenical emergency implies that a sincere and thus common ecumenical witness to Jesus Christ in the present world is only possible when the Christian churches overcome their divisions and can live in unity in reconciled diversity,” he said.
“Ecumenism and mission belong inseparably together since that is the only way in which God´s Church really is for God’s World.”
Speaking before a plenary on unity, the Venerable Will Adam, the Anglican Communion’s former Director of Unity, Faith, and Order, said that divisions were wounding the body of Christ.
“Unity is something for which Jesus prayed, and which the Bible teaches us is important – integral even – to the life of the Church,” he said.
“When the Church is divided, the body of Christ is wounded.”
Bishops have issued a Lambeth Call on Christian Unity committing Anglicans to “an urgent search for the full visible unity of the Church”.
It followed an appeal for unity by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.
“So let us not treat each other lightly or carelessly. We are deeply divided. That will not end soon. We are called by Christ himself both to truth and unity,” he said earlier in the conference.
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