AnglicanTV’s Live Stream from Wheaton

I missed most of it.  Hopefully Anglican TV posts the whole thing for viewing again.

I had to run my teenager to church (she only has a learner’s permit) right when this started.  I put my phone in front of the computer, called my cell, and listened to it while she drove!  And fortunately my call didn’t drop at any of the known black holes on the way.

Does anybody know who the R. C. cardinal in the red zuccheto behind +Duncan, to our left, is?

His name is +Fredrick G. Fick and he is not an R.C. Cardinal but an Anglo-Catholic bishop of the Missionary Society of St. John the Evangelist (http://www.msjanglican.org).  The MSJ is in communion with the REC.

Bp. Fick is my bishop

Bob+

GREAT! GLORY TO GOD!  AMEN!

Thanks to anglicanTV for letting me be there for the whole service.

I’m a lurker who’s come out of hiding and gone thru Stand Firm’s registration just so I (a Missouri Synod Lutheran) could tell you all that I’ve been so encouraged by the these events - it means so much to me see other Christians working for the preservation and advancement of the Gospel instead of against it. Praise be to God!  What a day!

(But mercy, that “organ!” It pains this wife of an organ builder to hear that… thing. Hopefully it sounded better in real life than it did thru my computer speakers.)

dwstroud, you capture my sentiments exactly.  It is incredible to have watched this, and just awesome to have been able to see it all live online.  I’m truly amazed at all God has done, and hopeful for all He will yet do.  This is indeed a night to celebrate!  God is faithful and He is building His Church and His kingdom.  Hallelujah!

Yes, praise God for a fresh start for Anglicanism in North America.  A new day is dawning, and it is bright with promise.

I sure enjoyed the people (+Murdoch, +Guernsey) who pointedly called +Bob Duncan the Lion-Hearted “Your Grace,” in his new capacity as Archbishop for “the Anglican Church in North America.”  Marvelous.

“A new province in formation.”  Sounds great to me.  This is a significant milestone in reuniting the divided fragments of orthodox Anglicanism on this continent.  Sure, we have a long to go.  This is only a start.  But it’s a most welcome and encouraging one.

Thanks be to God.

David Handy+

Psalm 98
Sing to the LORD a new song,
for he has done marvelous things;
his right hand and his holy arm
have worked salvation for him.

The LORD has made his salvation known
and revealed his righteousness to the nations.

He has remembered his love
and his faithfulness to the house of Israel;
all the ends of the earth have seen
the salvation of our God.

Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth,
burst into jubilant song with music;

make music to the LORD with the harp,
with the harp and the sound of singing,
with trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn
shout for joy before the LORD, the King.

Let the sea resound, and everything in it,
the world, and all who live in it.

Let the rivers clap their hands,
Let the mountains sing together for joy;
let them sing before the LORD,
for he comes to judge the earth.
   
He will judge the world in righteousness
and the peoples with equity.

Yes, David, I laughed out loud at the your grace episodes—and so did +Bob, which was wonderful to watch.  The mixture of joy, the call to repentance, and the humility and awe at what God had done—that seemed impossible only a short time ago!—was wonderful to see!

A wonderful service - thanks be to God.  His mercy endures forever.

bb

Greetings from San Joaquin. Don’t forget to give money to Kevin’s ministry every time you watch. Without anglicantv.org, we would not be able to participate in these historic meetings.

Congrats to Archbishop Duncan. It’s rather odd…I feel like nothing has changed, and yet like everything has changed…

Yours in Christ,
jacob

After a night’s rest, the joy of that historic service hasn’t worn off.  But a new realization is taking hold that this new start for orthodox Anglicanism in North America is highly significant in more ways than one.  Beyond the more obvious ways that this represents a radical innovation for Anglicanism, it is dawning on me more and more how meaningful and profoundly important it is that this new Anglican entity is theologically based rather than nationally based.

Now yes, it’s not totally unprecedented.  We have multi-national jurisdictions like the Province of the Southern Cone, or all the far-flung dioceses in TEC outside the boundaries of the USA.  And we have regional Anglican provinces that are SMALLER than a nation in the case of the unique Church of South India and the Church of North India.  But for the most part, as we all know, the 38 current offical provinces of the AC (i.e., not yet counting “the Anglican Church in North America” as a province of the AC yet but only as a “province in formation”) are almost all NATIONAL churches.  And given our state church history, that was entirely to be expected.

But in this POST-CHRISTENDOM era, that old historic alliance between church and the national state is obsolete and highly counter-productive.  The C of E is still very much the Church of ENGLAND, where it’s the fact that they are all English that binds them together much more than that they share the same theology or spirituality or even the same liturgy.

Not so with this new creation.  The Anglican Church in North America is NOT a national church, but a bi-national, or international church, that is defined explicitly on theological grounds INSTEAD OF and RATHER THAN on the basis of a common national identity or culture.  And that has very powerful and far-reaching implications.

Indeed, the more I think about it, the farther I realize that those implications go.  This is truly revolutionary stuff, more so than it may seem at this early stage.  It’s very, very promising.

David Handy+
Enthusiastic advocate of high commitment, post-Christendom, Christ-against-culture, theologically based and driven Anglicanism of an explicitly anti-state church sort.

Congratulation to the NEW Anglican Province of North America and to her new Archbishop, to all the groups who have united, the clergy and the laity.  Blessings from a fellow sojourner in Ireland. Your actions took courage and faith. May Christ richly bless you all.  May His Church never cease to marvel at His majesty. And may it always teach the truth as revealed in His Holy Word, and ever proclaim the salvation story and His love to the world. Amen

Being in CHI on business but not able to get to Wheaton to witness history in the making, I was thrilled when SF popped up on the Google search for news and the link to the Anglican.tv broadcast appeared. Praise God through whom all blessings flow! I feel so encouraged in a small way that this has come to pass.

I watched the first Eucharist of the new North American Anglican Province online last night….with many tears of joy.
What a thrill! 

We must guard this global renewal of Anglicanism with prayer.  May we keep our eyes on Jesus Christ and count the cost…be willing to crucify the flesh, be living sacrifices, be willing to live the Word to be holy and wholly His. 

May Jesus be Lord and builder of all that is done and be glorified in His Church.

40 yrs ago, already a postulant, I sang in Chicago with the UTS Men’s Choir as the EUB’s voted to be swallowed by the MC whale.

The cancer of revisionism swallowed the PECUSA where I made my vows to God in the Dio. of Chicago in ‘69.

Last night in Chicagoland, by the grace of God, great medical care and better living through chemistry, I sang every song to His glory and with tears in my eyes signed the Jerusalem Statement along with hundreds of brothers and sisters in Christ. We are the ACNA.

Thank you Lord Jesus for this new start to your old call, Use me wherever, whenever and however you will. Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.

Your servant, Bob +
        . . . still ridin’ for the brand, but no longer on a dead horse!

Thank you Lord Jesus for this new start to your old call, Use me wherever, whenever and however you will. Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.

Bob I agree so much with what you say. I’m sorry I could not watch all of the service last night but I did see a good part and saw many people there I know. I would have been there myself except for commitments here in Texas.

May our Lord bless this new work and guard it against all attacks.

Bob+

I might add, all the usual suspects on the HoB/D list server are already attacking it. Saying it’s bound to fail. No recognition and not Anglican. Ho hum…....

I don’t suppose someone recorded it, for those who missed it?

Yours in Christ,
jacob

Jacobsladder,

You can bet your pledge and plate that Kevin did record it and will be putting it up on the site very soon (it would probably be up already if he didn’t take a red eye flight last night to tape yet another event on the west coast). Also expect DVD’s to be available for Christmas giving.

I offer thanks and praise to God for giving me the privilege of being in Wheaton last night.  It was just wonderful, a time of joy and praise and hope!  It was snowy and cold outside, but warm inside and full of the presence of the Holy Spirit.  The sight of all the clergy, hundreds of them, united in being sold out to Jesus, no matter what the cost to them is what lingers. I prayed for them as they walked past me.  What a blessing to see Bishop Duncan take his place as our new Archbishop—such a humble and godly man, chosen to lead us forward.  The joy was electric, something I will never forget.  Thank You God, Thank You Jesus for the birth of the NAAP!

Thank You Keith!!!

Yours in Christ,
jacob

I just pulled this off of AnglicanTV, hope that’s okay Kevin…

I am in CA on a Video Shoot so I haven’t had time to edit the videos from Wheaton yet. The release schedule is as follows:
Friday 7:00pm EST—Wheaton Press Conference
Saturday 8:00pm EST—Wheaton Worship Service

I was there last evening. I was humbled to be able to vest and process. The Liturgy was magnificent, all the Bishops and our new Archbishop (“elect” or “in waiting” as he was referred to) was such a walking talking example of Holy Scriptures it brought tears to many of our eyes.
Having been privileged to be able to sit in and watch some of the Wednesday discussions and votes, I was touched by the love, compassion, directness and Christian charity that all the major players in the CCP showed to one another. One felt like they had tripped back in time to the Council of Nicea or the like.
How fortunate are we to have such men of character and faith as our leaders.
And then to be able to sign the Declaration…my cup runneth over.