Reaction from around the blogosphere:

Rev. Albert Mohler has an excellent piece up on Christianity Today about the Episcoplian descent. The Orthodox Are Finished.

Lutheran Church Missouri Synod member Professor Gene Veith also blogs about it. Episcopalians defy world Anglicanism with new pro-gay actions.

And the comments at Stand Firm say a lot about what traditional Anglicans are feeling. Episcopal vote on gay clergy widens Anglican split.

Sad times, my Christian friends. Keep in mind there are still many faithful in the Episcopalian Church and I’m sure their hearts are broken today. Keep them in your prayers.

Update: N.T. Wright, Anglican Bishop of Durham, weighs in too:

The Americans know this will end in schism.

Granted, the TEC resolution indicates a strong willingness to remain within the Anglican Communion. But saying “we want to stay in, but we insist on rewriting the rules” is cynical double-think. We should not be fooled.

Indeed, Bishop Wright. Indeed.

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Well, as predicted the other day, it’s a done deal. The Episcopalian Church in America has gone over the cliff…

Episcopal body gives final ok for fully inclusive ordination

“Fully inclusive ordination” – that Orwellian corruption and twisting of language by the radicals is just stunning. Apart from the tragedy this is for all Christians to see a once great denomination like the Episcopal Church descend into heresy, it’s a very personal issue for me. Though I am a Lutheran, my great-great-great grandfather was an Anglican priest who received his doctorate of divinity degree when he was 70 years old. He was the first of my family line to come to North America – first to Canada, then to the United States. The family still has letters from him written to the Church Standard where he argues brilliantly against the “higher critics” who were leading the church astray with their liberal theology (and this was at the turn of the last century).

In his letters, my g-g-g-grandfather warned about the dangers of this approach to the Scriptures, and given this move by the Episcopal church his words seem eerily prophetic and prescient today. I’m sure he would be stricken to see this happen to his beloved Anglican Communion. This event should stand as a dire warning to each and every denomination about what happens when a church body, desiring to follow the whims of culture and society – desiring to please men rather than to please God – places itself over and above the clear teaching of Scripture.

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We’re going to be touching on many cultural issues that are on a collision course with orthodox Christian faith, and no subject is more volatile, right now, than the issue of gay clergy and same sex “blessings” within the church. First the news, which isn’t really a surprise considering the trajectory the Episcopalians have been on for some time: Schism closer as US Anglicans vote to overturn ban on gay ordinations

Clergy and laity in the US backed a motion that “acknowledges that God has called and may call any individual in the Church to any ordained ministry in the Episcopal Church, in accordance with the discernment process set forth in the Constitution and Canons of the Church”.

The article goes on to explain that this motion opens the door and that the bishop’s vote, expected in the next few days, will seal the deal on a formal schism in the Anglican Communion.

The Episcopalian Church in America is about to go over the cliff and descend into outright and open heresy. This situation with the Episcopalians is representative of the terrible path many Christian denominations are on as they reject orthodoxy in favor of following the culture and allowing the “social gospel” of liberal theology to completely blind them to their own error. This is the consequence when Christians stop listening to the Word of God and start following their own “itching ears”(2 Timothy 4:3) and the “doctrine of demons”(1 Timothy 4:1). And make no mistake, there are many mainstream denominations in the United States that are just one step behind the E.C.A. on this one – maybe even just a half-step.

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