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Whatever happened to the Christian Faith?
We are bombarded every day with news of spiritual and moral decline, Church attendance dwindles, the divorce rate rises steadily, more and more young women are condemned to struggle as lone mothers, 350 unborn children are killed in abortion clinics every working day, life long marriage gives way to temporary cohabitation, a massive increase in demands for homosexual and lesbian unions to be considered as normal, young people are cast adrift as families break up, and the drug culture flourishes.
There is a desperate need for spiritual revival, but who will provide it?
The mainstream Churches have lost their authority. Disunited and weakened by compromise, they can no longer provide firm and confident leadership. People are looking elsewhere for new spiritual vision, new moral stability.
That is why people are joining A.I.C. (UK)
They have watched with despair as the mainstream Churches abandon biblical morality and surrender slavishly to political correctness, the downgrading of the place of the Sacraments within the worship of the Church, and worst of all, the steady undermining of the very belief in Christianity as a revealed Faith. It has become fashionable to say that Christians cannot know anything for certain about God. Faith has become the subject for debate, instead of something that is simply accepted as being true. They have seen a complete surrender of the Church to the shrill demands for Priestesses. They have suffered from inclusive language in the liturgy, multi-faith worship in the Cathedrals and blatant hypocrisy among so many of the Churches Leaders.
With the A.I.C. (U.K.) they are grasping once again the clear scriptural teachings at the heart of the Christian life, proclaimed without compromise. They have rejected confused teaching, diluted doctrine and watered-down faith. They want to hear the Gospel preached in its truth and fullness.
With the A.I.C. (U.K.) they are rediscovering the authentic Catholic faith handed on by the Apostles and accepted by the whole Church for more than a thousand years. They see no need for "do-it-yourself" services and insensitive "happy clappy” modernisation of worship.
With the A.I.C. (U.K.) they are once again experiencing the timeless beauty of the traditional liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer, and the wonderful language of the King James version of the Holy Bible.
So what is A.I.C. (U.K.)? (The Anglican Independent Communion, in the British Isles & Europe)
In a real sense, we are a "Continuing Church", not a new Church. We continue to believe in everything the Church of England accepted and taught before it was swamped and strangled by liberalism. That is why we call ourselves a "Traditional Church". In particular, we hold to the Holy Bible as God's inspired Word and to the Book of Common Prayer, the Ordinal and the 39 Articles of Religion, as containing reliable summaries of our Faith. We hold to the two Sacraments of the Gospel, Holy Baptism, which brings us "into Christ” and is completed in Confirmation, and the Holy Communion, which unites us to the Sacrifice of Christ Jesus and through which He feeds us with His Body and Blood. We hold to the Holy Orders of Bishops, Priests and Deacons, and in accordance with the teaching of the Bible and Church Tradition, we believe that all who hold these Orders must be men. In obedience to the command of Jesus Christ, we are committed to mission and evangelism in the power of the Holy Spirit. We believe that liberalism gives rise not only to false faith, but a failed faith, and we believe that our nation is now more than ever in need of a strong recall to the Apostolic Faith, the Faith which turned the ancient world upside down, the Faith which our Christian forefathers handed down to successive generations, the Faith which always carries a fresh relevance in every age and in every place.
The Metropolitan Archbishop of the
Anglican Independent Communion
in the British Isles and Europe,
The Most Rev'd Dr Norman S Dutton
A.I.C. (U.K) has a growing network of Parishes and Missions throughout the United Kingdom, and is in full Communion with: The Anglican Independent Communion in the Americas, The Independent Anglican Church of Canada, The Anglican Independent Communion in the Caribbean, and The Anglican Church of South India.
