What happens to churches when Gods word and its purpose is ignored and overiding by man.

Many churches are being torn apart as they give up basic Christian beliefs as shown in Gods word and substitute currnt views and ideas into the church beliefs, here is news on the Anglican church as it is split by these issues.....


"What's happening here in America is a warning to other churches that abandon orthodox Anglicanism" ...Bishop John Guernsey.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4296373.stm


"....The traditionalists claim to number some 200 parishes with more planning to join them, but they represent a tiny proportion of the Episcopal Church.

Most are likely to have to find new church buildings to meet in, and money to pay their clergy.
But they do have the backing of large swathes of the Anglican Communion, especially the conservative African Churches which have been trying to expel the Episcopal Church from the Anglican Communion since its ordination four years ago of the openly gay bishop Gene Robinson.

In February the leaders of the world's 38 independent Anglican Churches met in Tanzania and told the Episcopal Church it would have to promise not to ordain any more gay bishops or authorise the blessing of same-sex relationships in church services.

They also demanded an autonomous new church-body with its own presiding chief cleric as a home for traditionalists in America. They set a deadline of the end of September.

In what was reported to be a tense six-day meeting of Episcopal bishops in New Orleans they got at least part of what they wanted.
After a plea for compromise from the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the bishops agreed to modify their policy towards homosexuality pretty much as requested.

Perhaps they hoped to isolate their harshest conservative critics in the Communion.

Perhaps they reasoned that they were merely confirming a resolution already made by the Church's ruling General Convention...."

But there was no agreement to splinter groups of breakaway traditionalists.


"...Splinter groups

Seventeen bishops have already been ordained by a variety of African churches to lead splinter groups in the United States, and there are more on the way....


...And there is gathering momentum to unite into an independent new church and compete for recognition as the authentic voice of Anglicanism in the United States....

..It would also set a powerful precedent for other divided Anglican Churches, including the Church of England.
If it works, how long might it be before an African archbishop ordains a bishop to minister to disenchanted traditionalists in England? And this "alternative communion" would not look to England and the Archbishop of Canterbury for its focus and authority. ..."

http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=1571

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7015390.stm