‘Do you want to be healed?’
“Do you want to be healed?” This was the question posed by the Archbishop of Uganda, Henry Orombi to TEC, the Anglican Church of Canada, and all those who have torn the Anglican Communion asunder by their pursual of the gay agenda. In an impressive sermon on John 5, Archbishop Orombi addressed over 1000 people, including 300 bishops in episcopal garb, at the opening communion service at GAFCON today.
“This”, he said, “is the question the Lord is asking the Anglican Communion at this time.” The Anglican Communion, like the paralyzed man at the pool of Bethesda, has been trying in vain to heal itself and is need of the power of the Lord Jesus to lift it from its present crisis. Nothing but listening to the voice of Jesus, plainly declared in the Scriptures, can heal the present predicament. The word of God works miracles where it is listened to and obeyed. “The Word is power-packed”, and it is only this that “will release us and make the church an instrument of reformation”.
As GAFCON is about to enter the first day of discussions and workshops, one of the key words that is on the lips of many is ‘reformation’. At the opening session on the first day, the Archbishop of Rwanda, Emmanuel Kolini, spoke of this moment in the history of Anglicanism as a moment of reformation. Many people at the conference share that outlook. There is an air of determination that GAFCON will be the catalyst for that reformation and over the the week ahead, members of the conference will be exploring just how GAFCON can be that instrument, under God, of a reformation in the church.