Missing the point

The "bishop" of the Episcopal Church has warned the Church of England to not encourage more churches to leave the Episcopal church for the newly formed Anglican Church in North America by formally recognizing these churches. She went on to say:

She urged Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to remember the "pain of many Episcopalians in several places of being shut out of their traditional worship spaces, and the broken relationships, the damaged relationships between people who have gone and people who have stayed."

"Recognition of something like ACNA is unfortunately likely only to encourage" further secessions, she said, reminding the Church of England that "schism is not a Christian act."

Here is the problems with those statements, especially the last one. Schism may not be a "Christian act" but these churches haven't left the faith, the Episcopal church has. If anything these churches are rejoining the church, not causing schism. The true break came when the ECUSA started rejecting the explicit command of Scripture and ordaining women which leads inexorably toward ordaining open homosexuals as "bishops". If you are going to start willfully ignoring Scripture, it can only end in one place, complete and utter heresy which is where the ECUSA finds itself.