{"id":5867,"date":"2017-02-16T16:18:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T16:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5867"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:27:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:27:41","slug":"what-is-your-church-of-england-future-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5867","title":{"rendered":"What is your Church of England future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three questions will reveal your destiny!<\/p>\n<p>1. Do you accept the notion of &#8216;penal substitution&#8217; as an adequate account of salvation?<\/p>\n<p>2. Would you receive communion from a female priest?<\/p>\n<p>3. Would you receive communion from a gay priest?<\/p>\n<p>If your answer is yes, no, no then you will be sympathetic to Reform, and join up with the &#8216;Southern Anglican Communion&#8217;\/GAFCON.<\/p>\n<p>If your answer is yes, yes, no then you will be sympathetic to Fulcrum, and you will seek to keep the CofE on the road as far as possible. <\/p>\n<p>If your answer is no, no, no then you will be sympathetic to Forward in Faith and you&#8217;ll probably end up with Rome.<\/p>\n<p>If your answer is no, yes, yes then you will be sympathetic to Affirming Catholicism and when the realignment comes you&#8217;ll join in with TEC.<\/p>\n<p>(There are, logically, other options, but not many people will buy into them!)<\/p>\n<p>I think the issue is how long before TSHTF and the split becomes formalised. I wonder if there are plans already afoot? <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if it wasn&#8217;t obvious already, I&#8217;m &#8216;no, yes, yes&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>(I initially wrote this <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.co.uk\/2007\/04\/what-is-your-church-of-england-future.html\" target=\"_blank\">ten years ago<\/a>. Don&#8217;t see much need to change it, other than updating the names!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three questions will reveal your destiny! 1. Do you accept the notion of &#8216;penal substitution&#8217; as an adequate account of salvation? 2. Would you receive communion from a female priest? 3. Would you receive communion from a gay priest? If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5867\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ang-communion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-1wD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5868,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions\/5868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}