BISHOPS and clergy in Australia have reacted strongly to the call through the Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Glenn Davies, for Anglican supporters of equal-sex marriage to depart the Church.
supplying the presidential handle to the Sydney diocesan synod remaining week, Dr Davies pointed out that "if people wish to alternate the doctrine of our Church [on marriage], they may still delivery a new Church or be a part of a Church more aligned to their views; however do not damage the Anglican Church via forsaking the undeniable educating of scripture. Please leave us."
The Archbishop of Perth, essentially the most Revd Kay Goldsworthy, wrote to her diocese to assert that many people had been involved together with her after Dr Davies's comments. "i am so sorry for the distress that has been caused to so many in our Church and the wider neighborhood via these comments," she wrote. within the diocese of Perth, she referred to, "we're dedicated to welcoming americans as Jesus did, with the promise of his love which leads us out of the shadows of disgrace into the whole gentle of God's new day in Jesus Christ."
The Bishop of Gippsland, in regional Victoria, the Rt Revd Richard Treloar, in a letter to be read out at Sunday services in his diocese, talked about that people who recognized as LGBTQIA+, and supporters of marriage equality who desired same-sex marriages blessed in the Anglican Church, in addition to those that understood marriage to be completely between a person and a girl, had been all welcome in his diocese. "We invite you to come, and to stay," he wrote.
The Rector of St James's, Sydney, the Revd Andrew Sempell, talked about that Dr Davies's feedback were "an try and declare that the diocese of Sydney represents the 'true church', and that people who disagree are 'heretical' and do not appropriately belong".
Dr Davies has due to the fact spoke of that his remarks have been directed simplest at bishops. prior in his tackle, he had criticised the Bishop and the synod of the Victorian diocese of Wangaratta for authorising a liturgy for the blessing of same-intercourse marriages (news, 6 September). "We cannot bless same-sex marriages for the elementary reason that we can not bless sin," he spoke of.
He continued: "chums, we now have entered treacherous waters. I worry for the stability of the Anglican Church of Australia. These tendencies have the talents to fracture our fellowship and impair our communion."
The time had come "to take action and make choices, and these contemporary activities have made it the entire greater imperative to accomplish that", he spoke of. He referred to as on the ordinary Synod to make "a clear remark in regards to the teaching of the Bible on the sanctity of intercourse in the marriage bond of a person and a woman; in order that marriage is held in honour among all and the marriage bed is not defiled [Hebrews 13.4]".
On Tuesday, the Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Revd Paul Bayes, instructed the Guardian: "I regret that the Archbishop [of Sydney] looks to are looking to exclude individuals rather than to interact with them inside the wider Anglican household." He hoped that bishops from Sydney would attend the Lambeth conference subsequent yr, "so that we can all speak together and learn from one an additional there.
"in the meantime, I'm blissful that different elements of the Australian Church are undertaking communicate with Sydney, and are advocating for a more desirable inclusion and a much broader and more different Church. It's decent to be within the equal communion with all these americans."
The Sydney Synod also welcomed the Rt Revd Jay Behan, of Christchurch, New Zealand, who became consecrated bishop closing Saturday for the Church of Confessing Anglicans Aotearoa-New Zealand.
Dr Davies, the diocese of Sydney's regional bishops, the previous Archbishop Dr Peter Jensen, and the bishops of Armidale, North-West Australia, and Tasmania, all took half in the consecration. Sydney diocese, Dr Davies observed, regarded Bishop Behan and his diocese as authentically Anglican. "It matters little that the Archbishop of Canterbury is not going to recognise this new diocese as part of the Canterbury Communion," he spoke of.
"whereas I even have been accused of breaking fellowship with the countrywide Church by means of becoming a member of in a consecration with a Church purportedly not in communion with the Anglican Church of Australia, I it seems that declare that my communion with the Church of Confessing Anglicans of Aotearoa New Zealand is the koinonia [communion] of the Holy Spirit, as described via scripture," he referred to.
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