Sep 08 2019 25 mins 26
The synod of the Australian diocese of Wangaratta, Victoria has decided to walk a path that stands in opposition to the teaching of the bible, defies the theology of the national church and rejects the agreement of the national bishops council. Kanishka Raffel is Anglican Dean of Sydney and a member of the council of Gafcon Australia. Dean Raffel has told Dominic Steele on The Pastor’s Heart that the decisions by Bishop Parkes' Wangaratta diocese parallel those made by revisionists in the New Westminster diocese in Canada, which precipitated the formation of parallel Anglican expressions. Decisions similar to those in Wangaratta have ended up splitting the Anglican Church in Canada, the United States, Scotland, Chile and New Zealand. Dean Raffel says in seeking to bless something that God says is not blessed, what is happening is certainly not the religion of Christ. **** See further: Wangaratta Defies National Church by Kanishka Raffel (writing in the Australian Church Record, Spring Journal Support the show
