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Save your last bullet for (Bishop) Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. There are plenty of others to fire at first.
Don’t treat Gene as though he were the most guilty man in the whole of the Anglican Communion of Churches – there are others who are much more guilty.
Woe unto the Episcopal Church of the USA, which has deliberately and knowingly, since the 1960s, decided to take its public agenda from the secularized culture & the Zeitgeist of the West rather than from the Revelation of the Blessed Trinity in the Word written and illuminated by the Holy Spirit.
Woe unto the General Convention of the Episcopal Church of the USA, which has voted consistently and often since the 1960s for the repudiation of the Worship, Doctrine and Discipline inherited from the Protestant Episcopal Church of the USA and from the Church of England, and from the Church Catholic.
Woe unto the House of Bishops of the ECUSA, which has repudiated by its words and deeds, since the 1960s, its claim to be committed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to real membership of the college of Bishops of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.
Woe unto the Presiding Bishop, Frank Griswold, who has become an international ambassador for the apostate religion of the ECUSA.
Woe unto individual bishops and dioceses, which have followed the lead of the General Convention, set aside historic Worship, Faith, Order & Morality and delighted in innovation on many fronts, often including the persecution of “traditional” believers.
Woe unto the lay membership of the ECUSA, which has generally gone along with the repudiation of the heritage of evangelical/catholic Faith and Practice as well as the embracing of innovations, when it could have (by its virtual total control of weekly money & finance) sent many signals of disapproval and rejection to the House of Bishops.
Woe unto those who claim to be “orthodox and biblically-based,” but who have gone along with virtually all the innovations – except the latest concerning “gay sex” – since the 1960s and thus who hardly deserve to be taken seriously in the whole scheme of things as leaders of any renewal.
Woe unto the feminists who pressed for, and gained, such innovations as a total change in the Catholic Ministry and in the language of Bible and Liturgy used to address God and humanity.
Woe unto the social activists, whose passion for economic, political and social justice on earth caused the ECUSA to change the Gospel of heaven and hell into a message of commitment to activism for “peace and justice” in human society.
Woe unto the human rights advocates, whose drive to open up rights to all groups and persons in society has caused the morality of the ECUSA to be based more on modern theories of human rights than on the commandments of God.
Woe unto the LesBiGay lobby, with all its carefully planned and executed propaganda and activities, which has turned the received sexual morality of the ECUSA inside out and caused the naming of what was until recently immorality and sin by the name of morality and righteousness.
Woe unto Gene Robinson, who has been given by God a clear and able mind but who has used that mind to justify his own departure from Christian Faith and Morality and actively to support, commend and embody what the Church has historically called immorality – and to claim that “God” (not surely the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ) is guiding him.
There are very few in the present ECUSA who do not fall under the Woes pronounced from heaven and there are very few therein who do not suffer in some degree from the spiritual disease which so clearly affects those Bishops who were present to engage in the “consecration” of Gene on November 2.
May the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ have mercy upon us all!
The Revd Dr Peter Toon, November 2, 2003.
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