This is but one example of how the African continent is serving as the prophetic voice of rebuke to the straying Western church. It has happened in the Anglican church. It has happens in the ELCA. It has happened in the LCMS (anyone else remember Archbishop Obare from Kenya at 2004 LCMS Convention?). How Good are the works of the Lord.
Homosexuality against word of God: African bishops
ENTEBBE, Uganda (AFP) – African Anglican bishops voiced their strong disapproval of homosexuality at a meeting Tuesday attended by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, as the issue continues to divide Anglicans.
“Homosexuality is incompatible with the word of God,” said conference host and Ugandan Archbishop Uganda Henry Luke Orombi.
“Today, the West is lacking obedience to the word of God,” Reverend Ian Ernest of Mauritius told journalists on the sidelines of the conference.
“It is for us (Africans) to redress the situation,” he said, adding that he has severed all ties to the Episcopalian churches in Canada and the United States that have allowed gays to enter the clergy.
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It’s one of those great ironies, I suppose. The Europeans in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries thought they were bringing civilization to the “barbaric” Africans. And now, it is Africa, who is begging the West to return to the civilized precepts which the Europeans had first brought with them. And as much as the “enlightened” West likes to preach about the plight and the injustice done to Africa by themselves, it still assumes that it has the right to dictate to them as to what civilization really is. Africa and Asia and parts of South America may be last holdouts against a world being strangled by post-modernism.