From Conference To Movement To...?

The Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), which was held in Jerusalem from 22-29 June 2008, is a spiritual movement to preserve and promote the truth and power of the gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ as we Anglicans have received it. The movement is global: it has mobilised Anglicans from around the world.

GAFCON is not just a moment in time, but a movement in the Spirit, and
we hereby:

• launch the GAFCON movement as a fellowship of confessing Anglicans
• publish the Jerusalem Declaration as the basis of the fellowship
• encourage GAFCON Primates to form a Council.

--From the Introduction of the GAFCON Final Statement

Unable to bring their parallel communion into being, the rejectionists and their allies have decided they are a "movement":

It is a confessing fellowship in that its members confess the faith of Christ crucified, stand firm for the gospel in the global and Anglican context, and affirm a contemporary rule, the Jerusalem Declaration, to guide the movement for the future.

Perhaps they will pull off a schism in the future, but they will not be members of the historic Anglican Communion. Instead they will be a new denomination, not unlike the Missouri Synod Lutherans. Jerusalem Declaration Anglicans perhaps?

In any case, their declaration has some problems. Take a look at the Anglican Scotist's commentary, which is amongst the better ones.

And is it just me, or does "Primates Council" come across like "Windsor Bishops"?

Peace,
Jeffri