Kevin Kallsen, George Conger, and Gavin Ashenden talk about the chaos coming out the other CofE General Synod as Bishops trip over themselves to be the first to apologize for the Civil Partnership statement released last week. The future of the Church of England looks dismal as best.
Come now, gentlemen, you can’t actually expect there to be a plenary voting session at Lambeth 2020. It will all be decided in table discussions. I trained in this stuff in the 1970s, when Delphi technique was a new thing. The process is simple
1) invite all the suffragan bishops. This allows TEC to bring 60 extra bishops, and the CoE over 80 extra. The diocese of Toronto has 5 votes, where a Global South diocese 10 or 20 times it size in membership gets 1.
2) Use the Delphi table option. Works like this. Say you have 500 orthodox bishops and 300 liberal bishops (the latter guaranteed by the mass of revisionist suffragan bishops)- total 800, seated at tables of 8- so 100 tables. You then assign 40 tables with 8 orthodox each (320 orthodox bishops), and then create 60 tables with 5 revisionists and 3 orthodox each (300 revision bishops plus the remaining 180 orthodox bishops).
3) Count the vote by table. You will get 60 in favor of the revisionist agenda, and 40 against.
This is essentially how the ACC works when it votes “by region”. 60% of all Anglicans live in the African region, it gets 1 vote. The other 40% live in the other 4 regions, each approximately 10% of total Anglicans. 3 of those 4 small regions (in membership, but each with the same voting power as Africa) are controlled by revisionists or liberals. Hence, passing any orthodox resolution through the ACC is impossible, and we end up with Standing Committees that are completely unrepresentative of the orthodox majority of the Communion.
How interesting. I might say it is almost diabolically clever.
And, if this is the tactic which is used, it will be under the chairmanship of a man who was castigating the CofE today for being institutionally racist.
What a witness to the world.
I am in the Diocese of Michigan. I turned my back on TEC last year, after the initial discernment phase toward ordination. I got a glimpse of the inner workings of the machine and knew I didn’t stand a chance of progressing any further, and would be “outed” as a non-compliant heretic because I believe the eternal Gospel to be superior to transient politics. There is only one parish in the Michigan Diocese that is growing, and that was my parish, and I can tell you that particular very wealthy parish is fully on board with the LGBT takeover of the Diocese.
I have looked at the word tolerate as a negative word. You tolerate someone who doesn’t know better. You don’t necessarily respect them. Nobody wants to be tolerated. We want to be respected for who we are and what we believe. If we are respected we can be engaged in a meaningful discussion. If we are tolerated we will more often than not be looked down on for our beliefs. I find the liberal human secularists look upon the orthodox Christians with disdain and only tolerate them once they control things.