Bishop warns of schism
Date: June 16

By George CongerThe Anglican Communion as it now exists is finished, the Bishop of Lewes has warned, unless the American Church’s General Convention accepts the recommendations of the Windsor Report. Speaking to Anglican Media Sydney last week, Bishop Wallace Benn stated, “Internationally, the Anglican Communion is in crisis.”

“If the North American radical liberals are not disciplined, it is almost inevitable there will be a major split,” he said. President of the Church of England Evangelical Council, Bishop Benn was in Sydney to attend the Australian chapter meeting of EFAC: the Evangelical Fellowship in the Anglican Communion. He urged Australian evangelicals to hold fast and to “network, to share fellowship and to encourage each other” in the battle for the soul of Anglicanism. “The future of the Communion is a return to biblical and orthodox faith and if our leaders stand firm on that we won’t split…other than the North American churches,” Bishop Benn told Anglican Media Sydney. the rest