Bishop David Parsons and Bishop Darren McCartney from the Diocese of the Arctic attended the recent GAFCON conference. Since it hints at betrayal of the ACoC’s culturally inspired faux-gospel of indiscriminate inclusion and woolly diversity, this has created “a lot of angst and frustration.” If the ACoC’s tacit demotion of Jesus from God Incarnate to Middle Eastern social worker is not recanted, perhaps it is also a harbinger of the future defection of an entire ACoC diocese.
From the December Anglican Journal describing events at the October house of bishops meeting (not online yet):
News that Bishops David Parsons and Darren McCartney of the Diocese of the Arctic attended the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) in Nairobi in the hopes of creating partnerships to help with the diocese’s debt crisis and shortage of priests met with some consternation. “As one of our bishops put it, when the stated purpose of GAFCON is evangelistic revival in the life of the church, who could argue with that? But when there’s another kind of agenda going on that says the church in the West or North America preaches a false gospel…. then that creates a lot of angst and frustration,” said Hiltz.
“…perhaps it is also a harbinger of the future defection of an entire ACoC diocese.”
or possibly renewal from within the ACoC 🙂
On a related note, I also just read that George Kavoor has recently taken a position in the Episcopal Church to help re-start renewal there.
But I thought Hiltz *wanted* diversity in his church…? Oh.
“…in the hopes of creating partnerships to help with the diocese’s debt crisis…”
So maybe these guys are just there looking for handouts. Allegiances that are for sale are not allegiances, they are mercenaries.
For those who support these two Bishops can certainly support them by prayers and money.
This simply provides further proof that Fred Hiltz believes in the false gospel. He has made it clear from his actions that he stands behind apostates like Michael Ingham and Michael Bird and tragically many other so-called bishops seem willing to trade the vows they made at both their ordination and consecration for a secure pension and employment. So much for bishops being “chief shepherds” – they have become nothing less than ravenous wolves. It is time we realized you cannot glue truth to apostasy. The issues are NOT liberal versus conservative but truth versus apostasy. There is no question as to the side adopted by Fred Hiltz and his followers.