I predicted quite some time ago that this day would come. Not because I'm smart, but because I've been listening to the people planning this day. What they have been saying all along is: "We are working for this day to come."
That day is December 3rd - when the Common Cause Partnership (CCP) in conjunction with the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FOCA) - will launch what will be called the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA?). They claim it will be a province of the Anglican Communion. The new 'province' will include Mexico, United States and Canada. ACNA will be based on the language of the "Jerusalem Declaration" and the birth of a new constitution and canons of a new 'Anglican Church' for North America.
FOCA is the group consisting of those bishops - and others - who boycotted the 2008 Lambeth Conference in protest of the presence of the Episcopal Church there.
What is clear is that these people have kept their word, and done everything they suggested they would do. What is surprising is that they continue to feign surprise when they get 'deposed' by TEC, and that there appears to be such silence from Canterbury on all of this.
Bob Duncan in his announcement of the event claimed that ACNA would be a 'province of the Anglican Communion.' One wonders how he can make this claim? Heretofore, new provinces of the Anglican Communion have been named by the Anglican Consultative Council - not by declaration of the province itself - or by the recognition of a handful of other primates. Secondly, heretofore, provinces do not overlap with existing ones - the reality of overlapping jurisdiction in regards to chaplaincies, mission, etc., notwithstanding. Thirdly, the legitimacy of the so-called Primates Council (self-appointmed by GAFCON) as an entity of the Communion, or the practice of boundary violation have already been critiqued by the Archbishop of Canterbury since the Jerusalem Declaration was made. Fourthly, Duncan and the gang have already repudiated Rowan Williams, the role of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the recent Lambeth Conference or the covenant draft now being considered - so one wonders why the keep claiming a place 'in the Anglican Communion' anyway.
Here is the video of the announcement of the new Anglican-named entity.
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It is a sad day that is coming, and one that is endemic in far too many in Protestantism. It seems that the emphasis on the church of Christ being ONE, in addition to holy, catholic and apostolic is the most short-changed part of our heritage. This directly contradicts sacred scripture, sacred tradition and, to my mind, reason. I will be praying for as gentle a separation as can be had, since my prayers for unity and for cooler heads to prevail do not appear to be what is to be, unfortunately.
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