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July, the Month of Independence and Dependence

This isn’t a great month for English rule. Two hundred thirty odd years ago Americans said they wanted to have their own country and fought a war to bring it about. Here in 2008, as I write this, 1000 archbishops, bishops, priests, deacons, and lay people are gathering in Jerusalem to see how like-minded Anglicans can work together for the Gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the world. They are fighting an Ecclesial War to keep the Anglican Church from following a cultural agenda that cherishes the form, while losing the substance of the historic orthodox Church. Our Archbishop Gregory and Bishop Bill are right in the middle of this gathering. We can be very sure that God will use their leadership to His Glory.

This meeting, GAFCon (Global Anglican Future Conference, June 22-29) comes just before the Lambeth Conference in July (a once-every-ten-year gathering in England of all, or most, archbishops and bishops), a time when the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, would rather have everyone’s attention on how we can still all just get along, despite our differences. That is just not possible anymore. There are things that do divide a Church.

This July could mark the second greatest loss for the British Empire. Our War of Independence was the first separation of a colony from the Empire, and now there is the real chance that the locus of the Anglican Church will move from the Archbishop of Canterbury and the British Empire to another Archbishop from perhaps a former Colony of the Empire.

All I know for sure is that this is a month that should be marked by our DEPENDENCE on God. We need to pray, pray, pray--as if the spiritual lives of the next generation of Anglicans depend on our prayers!

fr. john

II Tim. 3:16-17

All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

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