Could church planting networks be Reform?s Ordinariate?

January 12th, 2013 Posted in Anglican Ordinariates, Women Bishops | Comments Off

By Julian Mann

The Anglo-Catholics have a home to go to in the Ordinariate once women bishops are appointed in the Church of England. But what about conservative evangelicals in Reform?

Once a single clause women bishops' measure is enacted, as seems almost certain after the next General Synod elections, will we as a constituency knuckle under and accept the unbiblical innovation or will we be moved to take radical action?

The reality is that for us women bishops are not an isolated departure from biblical truth in the Church of England. The allowance of clergy and now bishops in civil partnerships is a concern on top of the heretical teachings the institutional Church has been tolerating and indeed promoting for decades.

If the Church of England becomes like TEC, large evangelical flagships could leave the institutional structures and carry on proclaiming the Lord Jesus Christ in their local communities as confessing Anglican churches. Yes, it would involve leaving their buildings, which is a messy and tiresome business. But there are recent precedents for this. St George's Tron in Glasgow ? now The Tron Church out of the Church of Scotland ? did it before Christmas. Orthodox Anglican congregations in the United States and Canada have been doing it for several years now. A whole diocese is doing it in South Carolina. It's do-able for the large and well-resourced churches.

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