GAFCON head ratchets up attacks on CofE with call on evangelicals to act on threats to leave
The chair of the GAFCON conservative Anglican grouping has urged evangelicals in the Church of England to act on a warning that they may withdraw from the Church if it liberalises its doctrine of marriage and sexuality.
The Church of England Evangelical Council (CEEC) issued the document Gospel, Church & Marriage: Preserving Apostolic Faith and Life at the end of January. It said the doctrine that sexual relations were only for heterosexual marriage was not an 'optional extra' on which Christians could disagree and that a departure from apostolic teaching 'regrettably requires in response some degree of visible differentiation'....