Monday 8 November 2010

Defections to Rome

It's reported today that five C of E bishops (Andrew Burnham, Keith Newton, John Broadhurst, Edwin Barnes and David Silk) are to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church through the Ordinariate because of the consecration of women to the episcopate. And there's talk of more churches leaving the C of E for Rome.
Am I disappointed? No not really. I know many conservative evangelicals who want to join up with the Anglo-catholics because apparantly we preach the same gospel. But we don't.
You've only got to look at the blogs of some of these folk to see prayers to the saints, talk of the mass etc. These deny the sufficiency of Christ and his death - we don't pray to saints, but to the Father, through our one mediator, Jesus Christ, in the power of the Spirit. The mass re presents the sacrifice of Jesus, and denies his once-for-all-time death as clearly stated in the Prayer Book.

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