HOMOSEXUALITY: Church of Uganda asks Church of England to repent or quit Anglicanism
Dr. Stephen Samuel Kaziimba Mugalu, the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, said the Church of Uganda cannot accept the position taken by the English church because God cannot bless what He calls sin.
The Church of England has departed from the Anglican faith and are now false teachers, and for that, the Church of Uganda, which is an autonomous Anglican Province, is disassociating itself from them after the former passed resolutions that support homosexuality, including slowing the clergy to preside at Blessings of Same-sex Unions and the approval of supplemental prayers and liturgies for such occasions.
Addressing the media on Friday, 10th February 2023, The Most Rev. Dr. Stephen Samuel Kaziimba Mugalu, the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, said the Church of Uganda cannot accept the position taken by the English church because God cannot bless what He calls sin.
The Archbishop explained that from the first page of the Bible to the last, God’s design for human flourishing has been that we are part of a family defined as one man and one woman united in holy matrimony for life and, God willing, a union that produces children.
“Because lifelong, exclusive marriage between one man and one woman is the only context for sexual relationships, the Bible calls any other kind of sexual relationship a sin. Whether it is adultery, or fornication, or polygamy, or homosexual relationships. They are all sin and they all separate us from God,” the Archbishop said.
He further explained that while God can forgive you, it requires one to come before God, confess that you have done wrong, and make a commitment to change your way of life – in other words, to repent – and walk in God’s ways.
England should repent
This is what the Archbishop wants the Church of England to do, repent, because the Church of England has departed from the Bible and their new message is the opposite message of the Bible.
“We all know the story of the Uganda Martyrs, how they refused to engage in homosexual sex with their leaders. They stood firm in their Christian faith and were martyred for it. We cannot betray them or our Lord Jesus Christ. We will not betray the Word of God or His ways,” he emphazised, adding that Jesus does not change his mind about what is sinful.
“And, if they refuse to repent, then we call on them to have the integrity to form their own Canterbury Communion because what they believe is not Anglicanism and it is not the faith once delivered to the saints.
“If they want to take their whole church into the belly of a whale, they are free to do that; we are, after all, autonomous Anglican Provinces. We think it’s a bad idea, but they are free to do it.
“But, they are NOT free to drag the whole Anglican Communion with them. The Anglican Communion is NOT an extension of the Church of England,”
Kigali meeting
The Archbishop revealed that the Church of Uganda has more than 200 members traveling to Kigali in April for the 4th Global Gafcon meeting. “We will be there with many Bible-believing Archbishops, Bishops, and Anglicans from all over Africa and the world. These are the ones who have not bowed their knee to Baal. (1 Kings 19.18),”
Adding: “We shall pray, and sit together, and discern the mind of Christ for the way forward. I ask your prayers for wisdom, for, indeed, we need the wisdom of Solomon to know how to faithfully respond to the crisis at hand.”
