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An Aussie diocese chooses apostasy. How to react? - with Kanishka Raffel
The synod of the Australian diocese of Wangaratta, Victoria has decided to walk a path that stands in opposition to the teaching of the bible, defies the theology of the national church and rejects the agreement of the national bishops council.
Kanishka Raffel is Anglican Dean of Sydney and a member of the council of Gafcon Australia.
Dean Raffel has told Dominic Steele on The Pastor’s Heart that the decisions by Bishop Parkes' Wangaratta diocese parallel those made by revisionists in the New Westminster diocese in Canada, which precipitated the formation of parallel Anglican expressions.
Decisions similar to those in Wangaratta have ended up splitting the Anglican Church in Canada, the United States, Scotland and New Zealand.
Dean Raffel says to seek to bless something that God says is not blessed, is not the religion of Christ.
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See further:
- Statement from Gafcon Australia on Wangaratta, 9 September 2019
- Regional synod vote ignores clear words of Scripture - Archbishop Glenn Davies
- Wangaratta Defies National Church by Kanishka Raffel (writing in the Australian Church Record, Spring Journal
Update 11.9.2019: After our discussion was uploaded, the Albury Border Mail reported that the liturgy for blessing parties to a same-sex marriage will not be used this Saturday due to a legal challenge, but quoted Bishop Parkes as saying it was just, ‘a delay, rather than an abandonment.'
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