The Most Interesting News From GAFCON Thus Far...

From Ruth Gledhill of The Times: http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2008/06/archbishop-akin.html#more

'I also took the chance to ask Archbishop of Sydney Dr Peter Jensen, who is part of the Gafcon leadership team, if he hoped that one day the entire Anglican Communion would adopt lay presidency, or lay administration as he prefers to call it. He said the issue was not comparable to that of homosexuality because the question of administering communion is never addressed in the Bible, while homosexuality is. "It [lay administration] is a subject we have been talking about in our diocese for 30 years," he said. But he was aware there was "considerable disagreement" about it around the Communion, and to date his diocese had held back from engaging with it formally.'

The de facto head of GAFCON and the burgeoning neo-evangelical movement within the Anglican Communion does not believe that Our Lord constituted the Twelve Apostles priestly stewards of the New Testament at the Last Supper and in the Resurrection and uniquely commended to them and their successors in the episcopate-priesthood alone the commission and authority to celebrate Mystery of the Eucharist, the Body and Blood of Christ, in spite of the perspicuous teaching of Scripture and primitive Tradition and the perennial instruction of the Book of Common Prayer. What can one say?