An Open Opinion on the Authority of General Convention

Comment on An Open Opinion on the Authority of General Convention (please use the link to read the Opinion; it is quite lengthy):

The argument would be sounder if the Church in question were truly a National Church such as the C of E and could claim to be the historic catholic Church of the land.

In the USA, the fact of the matter is that the ECUSA is in the same supermarket of religions and on equal competitive basis with major Lutheran, Presbyterian Methodist and Baptist Churches, not to mention the Orthodox Churches and the Roman Church. Further, and importantly there have been major schisms from the ECUSA due to its perceived aspostasy since the 1960s. Thus if the ECUSA disappeared the Church of God and the anglican witness would remain intact in the USA!

The Rev'd Dr. Peter Toon