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The phone rings late in the evening, an anguished orthodox rector is on the other end of the line. “David, my people won’t wait much longer. They want out. What do we do, where do we go? Will the Primates finally act in February? What can the Network do for us? Will there be a proto province? After February I believe all bets are off. I am going to lose 40 to 60 percent of my congregation. Do I go with them? Do I stay with the remainder? What can the Network really do to save me and my people? I don’t trust my bishop. He says he is orthodox, but then in the next breath he says unity is everything and if anyone leaves he will go after them. He wants us all to
stay. Things will change he tells us. Frank Griswold won’t be around forever. But the truth is my people won’t stay, and the giving is down. People are not going to put money into a church they don’t believe in any more and doesn’t have a gospel to proclaim and pushes sodomy. They have drawn the last line in the sand, they are going. “What do I do?”
Read the whole story by David Virtue here.
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