Gnostic Noise and Confessionalism

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/aroundonetable/docs/AOT%20Report_Abbr-092509HR.pdf

This above URL is gnostic noise of existentialism.

Read the above URL by way of contrast to the old Prayer Books, Rerformation Confessions, and, above all else, the inspired and inerrant Word of God. Being an Episcopalian is to suffer theological dementia, short and long term memory loss, and hostility to God's Law and Gospel. It's important to develop a full-orbed and practical offensive and defensive apologetic in the event of engaging a pew member from this mystery religion.

That they an irreversible degenerative disease that requires skilled physicians to examine the etiology and course of the corporate illness. A correct diagnosis, with perhaps varying differentials, must be examined.

As a practical matter, however, where does an elect, justified and forgiven sinner go? One from the Anglican way? He'll sacrifice his old Prayer Book--a loss--but he'll get better doctrinal bearings in a Confessional Lutheran or Confessional Reformed Church. We recommend the latter as Confessional Anglicans. It also may become necessary to form small groups in homes around some good Reformed literature, e.g. Ligonier Study materials, with Evening Prayer--for starters. A group that grows together.

1 well-trained, well read, thinking, informed, Confessional, Calvinistic Anglican is theologically superior to a 10,000 blind, illiterate, drifting and confused Episcopalians. May we recall the story of the Gideonite army. As such, such leaders can read, write, lead and govern growing but small bodies committed to the faith of Christ Jesus...rooted in Reformation Anglicanism.

If these numbers are a fair representation and there are 700,000 of these forlorn folks in the TEC (not to mention the 100,000 in the ACNA), we need 70-80 trained Church leaders. We can't look to the TEC-trained and TEC-lite ACNA leaders. They're a mess. They have Anglo-Papists, semi-Pelagian enthusiasts (charismatics), compromising and self-confessed "Reformed types (with no confessions), and everything in between. There is a crisis in Anglicanism.

We need to be prepared to use the internet, conference calls, youtube, and face-to-face small groups.

Bishops don't make churches, Christ does. Consider the churches at Rome that started without any apostolic presence, e.g. St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans and its provenance.