{"id":1265,"date":"2011-01-20T14:15:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T21:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?page_id=1265"},"modified":"2019-01-04T07:51:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T14:51:19","slug":"ccm-10-years-out-elca-hooked-but-not-landed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?page_id=1265","title":{"rendered":"CCM 10 years out: ELCA hooked but not landed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">January 2011 marks the tenth anniversary of <em>Called to Common Mission<\/em> (CCM), the Lutheran-Episcopal agreement for \u201cfull communion.\u201d It\u2019s been <strong>a non-event<\/strong> because the ELCA, although hooked, has not been landed.<\/div>\n<p>What is CCM really about? One of its architects, the Rev. Canon J. Robert Wright, has said: \u201cI think they [ELCA leaders] see us as possibly helping them recover the ancient <strong>catholic tradition<\/strong><a href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> which they had prior to the Reformation.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn2\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wright is right. Top ELCA leaders wanted the same sacramental episcopate as is found in the Roman Catholic and Anglican traditions, but they couldn\u2019t openly sell it to their people. So by hook and by crook they got their way:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ELCA leaders overrode the 1993 Churchwide Assembly. <\/strong>The ELCA\u2019s study of ministry in the early 1990\u2019s proposed a three-fold structure like the Episcopal Church, but the 1993 ELCA Assembly instead adopted <strong>diaconal ministers as lay-rostered<\/strong> associates of ministry.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"3\" \/>After the Assembly the ELCA Church Council, <strong>overriding<\/strong> the will of the Assembly, voted (16-15!) to upgrade the status of <em>diaconal ministers <\/em>by <em>consecrating<a href=\"#_ftn3\">[3]<\/a><\/em> them into office rather than <em>commissioning<\/em> them as is done with other lay-rostered ministers.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"6\" \/><\/li>\n<li><strong>ELCA leaders overrode the 1999 Churchwide Assembly. <\/strong>In March 1999 the ELCA bishops adopted a \u201cproposal for revision\u201d of CCM, called the Tucson Resolution, which claimed that CCM did not require the ELCA to \u201ceventually adopt\u201d the threefold office of ministry (bishops, priest, deacon) and did not require the ELCA to establish the office of deacon or ordain them.<a href=\"#_ftn4\">[4]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>Anglicans and Catholics agree that ordination into the Holy Orders of their respective churches effects an <strong>ontological change<\/strong>: \u201cBoth traditions affirm\u2026<strong>the sacramental nature of ordination<\/strong>, as to which there is no significant difference between them\u201d (<em>The Final Report of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission<\/em> (Cincinnati: Forward Movement Press, 1982; Elucidation 3; emphasis added).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"3\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe firm <strong>ontological<\/strong> basis of the ordained ministry has been central to our understanding of the church,\u201d Archbishop of Canterbury, George L. Carey, October 1999 (emphasis added).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"3\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Historic Episcopate is \u201cnecessary for salvation,\u201d \u201cbinding on all who are baptized,\u201d \u201cunchangeable,\u201d and \u201csupplying a basis for reckoning a church to be a true church,\u201d (In 1996 the Righter Trial Court, composed of eight bishops, issued a 7-1 decision that the Chicago Lambeth Quadrilateral constitutes the Core Doctrine of The Episcopal Church). Read about it <a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/2006\/historicepiscopate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"3\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> J. Robert Wright, <em>The Living Church<\/em>, 2\/23\/2001, p.15 (emphasis added).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"3\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a> As Joe Wagner, then Executive Director of the Division for Ministry, said: Diaconal ministers \u201care to <strong>fit between<\/strong> Associates in Ministry and pastoral ordained ministers\u201d (emphasis added).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"3\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a> Tucson Resolution A.1. \u201cno requirement that [the ELCA] must eventually adopt the threefold order of ministry.\u201d Also, A. 4. \u201cno requirement [that the ELCA] establish the office of deacon, nor that they be ordained.\u201d Read the Tucson Resolution <a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/2006\/tucsonresolution.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"3\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\" \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?page_id=1357\">PAGE 2<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"3\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 2011 marks the tenth anniversary of Called to Common Mission (CCM), the Lutheran-Episcopal agreement for \u201cfull communion.\u201d It\u2019s been a non-event because the ELCA, although hooked, has not been landed. What is CCM really about? One of its architects, the Rev. Canon J. Robert Wright, has said: \u201cI think they [ELCA leaders] see us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1265","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2931,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1265\/revisions\/2931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}