Lambert Conference 2008 Opens Without Nigeria

The decadal conference of the Anglican Church’s bishops opens today at Canterbury in the United Kingdom. This year’s conference ran into troubled waters due to the many waters that have passed under the bridge since the last conference in 1998. The most minds bugging for the church, is the ordination of gay (homosexual) bishop. Before this ordination saga, the Anglican Bishop of Boston USA, came out of his closet and refused to excommunicate himself.  Peter Cowell and David Lord both Anglican Priests got married on May 31^st 2008. This handshake has gone well beyond the elbow and the restless young deacons are asking for ordination of homosexuals. 

The African Anglican Bishops led by the Archbishop of Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion, Bishop Peter Akinola, held an apparel conference where they took a position not to attend this year’s Lambert.  Amarachi Umah, a member of St Peter’s Anglican Church Irete Owerri, Imo State, told us that this boycott, is hinged on Romans 2 Vs. 27 & 32 “likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of women, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful…that those who practice such things are deserving death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them”

The Anglican communicants in Nigeria welcome the boycott but want the Church Of Nigeria Anglican Communion to go further in Africanising the Church and cease relationship with the parent church in England. Basing their argument on the Biblical injunction that a little leaven leavens the whole lump and Amos 3 Vs. 3 “Can two walk together except they agree?”

Furthermore, they want the Church of Nigeria, to remove the name Anglican from their identity claiming that the origin of Anglicanism is adulterous (- the Pope had refused to grant divorce to King Edward). Another area the communicants want the Akinola led rebel group to seriously look into, if they want to break from the mother church, is to revise the Book of Common Prayer, especially the prayer that asks the faithful to pray for the Queen of England.

A Nigerian I spoke with on the streets of Abuja, question why the African Bishops are bothering themselves with European headache when in Africa, these Bishops wine and dine with politicians who stole the people’s mandate? Has the Church spoken out against the judicial rascality making wave in the electoral tribunals across Nigeria?This Nigerian wants to know what the Nigerian Bishops have done about the man-made poverty ravaging Africa. The Nigerian Bishops live in opulence while their parishioners live in abject poverty, dying of preventable and curable diseases. If homosexuality wants to crumble the western civilization, so be it. What business has the vulture in a barbers’ conference?  

Be that as the divided opinions are, the communicants earnestly await the outcome of the Lambert Conference, whether they will speak against homosexuality or berate their African brothers.     

 

 

 

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