Bishop Justin will bring to the Anglican Communion a special combination of gifts and experience. I know him as a deeply committed servant of Jesus Christ who honours the Scriptures as the Word of God and as a courageous peacemaker. I am confident that these qualities, together with his sustained involvement in business and finance, will enable him to articulate the Lordship of Christ to a watching world as well as to a Communion in continuing disorder....

As the Primate of Kenya and Chairman of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, I eagerly look forward to working with the new Archbishop of Canterbury as a partner in the gospel to restore much needed conviction, confidence and unity to the deeply fractured Anglican family.

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1. MichaelA wrote: A fair and encouraging message to the new ABC, but also carrying a clear warning as to what is expected of him. It will be interesting to see how +Welby deals with the call for the chair of the Primates’ meeting to be elected on a rotating basis: “in the future development of the Anglican Communion the chair of the Primates Meeting should be elected by the Primates themselves’.” The liberals in CofE and TEC won’t like that. Yet it has been clear since the Dublin meeting that, without a concession like this, there won’t be any more fully-attended Primates meetings (and more to the point, there won’t be attendance by leaders of most of the world’s Anglicans).  This ball is now firmly in the new ABC’s court. November 9, 10:48 pm | [comment link]

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