Anniversary of Homosexual Bishop's Confirmation Approaching

by Jim Brown
July 26, 2004

(AgapePress) - The Anglican Communion Network (ACN) will be holding a day of prayer next month for the Episcopal Church USA.

The day of prayer and fasting on August 5 will mark the first anniversary of the confirmation of Vicki Gene Robinson, the first openly homosexual bishop in the ECUSA. Conservative Anglican theologian Dr. Kendall Harmon says days like that need to be observed in special ways.

"I think it's a great day of sadness for the majority of Anglicans worldwide because it represents the anniversary of a day in which the church stepped across a clear line of teaching on the part of the Bible that the church has never before sought to change," Harmon says. "It was a day when the church, as far as the majority of Anglicans worldwide believe, turned its back on God."

The ACN is also setting aside the following Sunday, August 8, as a day to "prayerfully support" global missions that have been adversely affected by the denomination's rejection of scripture. That area of the globe, he says, has much to offer the Christian world.

"We believe that the Global South, which is very deeply opposed to what the Episcopal Church has done [regarding the issue of homosexuality], has a lot to teach -- not simply to the Episcopal Church, but the whole Western church," Harmon explains. 'One of the things that I think a lot of us have to come to grips with is that the leadership of Christianity is moving from the north (hemisphere) to the south."

Harmon says what America needs more than anything is for Global South missionaries to come to the United States.