Bishop Lawrence Is Out of The Episcopal Church

I thought that I'd give an update after the TEC diocese and the Bishop Lawrence diocese held their meetings

AFTER THE TEC CLERGY MEETING AND THE BISHOP LAWRENCE CONVENTION
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slightly fewer that 50 parishes to go with Bishop Lawrence
18 to stay in TEC
7-10 unsure
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Obviously, there will be many parishioners moving from their parishes to other parishes, or other churches, or simply dropping out of church for awhile.

Also, there will priests who wish to do something different than their parishes, in which case they will need to move to another parish.

Another nagging problem is that some parishes will lose enough members as to endanger the viability of the parish. I would suspect that both the Presiding Bishop and Bishop Lawrence will try to keep this from happening.

SC Episcopalians
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As for my family, we will attend a new parish tomorrow.

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As an aside, there are many property issues. For example, Bishop Lawrence lives in a house owned by TEC.

 

TEC has decided not to fight Lawrence's lawsuit. The seal now belongs to the Protestant Episcopal Church of South Carolina. Given the previous South Carolina Supreme Court decision, lawsuits by TEC to secure the property of individual churches seems unlikely to succeed.

I don't know that status of clerical pensions, or even the status of our priests. I doubt that any have formally left TEC.

 

I hope we can all agree that the pursuance of secular lawsuits between Christians is forbidden in the Holy Scripture, and is a shame unto all of us? What a tragedy this is!

 

I'll be praying for our brothers and sisters on both sides.

Jeff

 

Talk about leaving with class. God bless you Bishop Lawrence and your flock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm-LyA9k4Ec

 

And this was an excellent perspective by the AAC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfz4CLlLEUc