Link: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/17/new-anglican-church-poses-dilemma/

In my mind this poses no dilemma except with those who have turned their back on the Gospel that Christ embodied and was shared by the apostles and disciples that through faith believed in Him. We are of one body under Christ Jesus and whether their are two associates that call themselves Anglican or just one, we are all the simply members of the body, each with our own functions and vocations. The dilemma, however, that this poses to the heretical Episcopal Church is that it takes money from their offering plates and places it in the plates of those who are more faithful to the Word of God and the mission of Lord Jesus.

There is no precedent in the communion for a country to have more than one recognized province, and Episcopalians who back the move have maintained that the U.S. and Canadian churches no longer preach and believe historic Anglicanism.

The formalities cap a six-year progression out of the 2-million-member Episcopal Church by Episcopalians over the U.S. church’s increasing doctrinal liberalism, which has prompted many to leave to other denominations, though others have hung on in the hope a conservative alternative would arise.

ACNA spokesman Peter Frank said the gathering will be inspirational instead of legislative. “This is really about mobilizing people to do mission at the local parish level,” he said.

Speakers will include such non-Episcopalians as Rick Warren, the pastor of California’s Saddleback evangelical megachurch, and Metropolitan Jonah, head of the Orthodox Church in America. Also attending will be the Rev. Todd Hunter, a church planter for the Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMIA), one of the 28 groups represented at ACNA.

Episcopal Church spokeswoman Neva Rae Fox said the denomination was “aware” of the gathering and officials were concerned that one of its active bishops, Peter Beckwith of the Springfield, Ill., diocese, may be participating.

A message left at Bishop Beckwith’s office was not returned Tuesday.

More than 70 of the Episcopal Church’s 110 dioceses are in serious financial straits, and its membership is dropping precipitously, with an average Sunday attendance of 727,822.

If the Episcopal Church could only quiet itself and listen to the still small voice that is calling it to repentance, perhaps some of the membership would return to the Church that they once loved. Physically the members of the new providence walked away but spiritually it was TEC who turned its back on the faithful after attempting to woo them into apostasy and heresy. Once the new Anglican Church is fully established it will be too late and the falling of the Episcopal Church will be mostly a silent affair as the truly faithful will have departed for the green grass of true faith and the crashing of the faithless will be just another sound added to the cluster of secular noise that is already deafening.