Archbishop Venables: Primates Coalition Will Support Second U.S. Jurisdiction
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12/05/2006

In a message to the Dec. 1-2 convention in the Diocese of San Joaquin, the Primate of the Southern Cone assured clergy and lay delegates that the Global South primates’ coalition will support pleas for a second Anglican jurisdiction in the United States—one independent of The Episcopal Church.

“Although you might need to separate from an agenda that long ago separated from the plan of God for the Christian Church, at no time will you have to separate from the Anglican Communion,” Presiding Bishop Gregory Venables said in a taped message shown at St. James’ Cathedral, Fresno, during a service at the start of convention.

In a 17-minute address from his office in Buenos Aires, Bishop Venables outlined the history of the disputes over doctrine and discipline within the Anglican Communion, citing the actions of the General Convention in sparking the current controversy. However, the current division ran deeper, he said, and displayed “two ways of defining Christianity.”

The church had divided into two camps, one holding on to the traditionalist view of doctrine, revelation and discipline and a settled view of truth, while the other was molded by “post-modernism” with a pluriformity of truths, that Bishop Venables said amounted to a faith that was “whatever you wanted it to be.”

The decision to separate would provoke rejection and criticism, he said, but Bishop Venables noted the “tearing of the fabric” of the Communion had begun within The Episcopal Church. He reminded listeners that there was a cost to conscience, but exhorted them to follow the examples of “Latimer, Ridley and Cranmer.”

The Church had been “founded on the blood of martyrs,” Bishop Venables said, warning the convention that “if you are serious about the Lord Jesus Christ, you will have to pay a price.”

(The Rev.) George Conger

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Archbishop Greg Venables speaks to Diocese of San Joaquin
Posted: December 4, 2006

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Archbishop Greg Venables
Diocese of San Joaquin Convention 2006

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