Independent and free church evangelicals are not alone. There are some — dare we say many — Anglicans who have questions about the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) which met in Jerusalem in June 2008.
The doubters are not all evangelicals, but you will find conservative evangelicals among them. Those with misgivings tend to fit into one of three groups.
Traitors
First, there are those within wider Anglicanism who see GAFCON and its growing baby, the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA), as traitors. Traitors because they created something new; a fraternal outside existing structures. A fellowship which is seen to challenge the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury. This group is mainly composed of liberal revisionists. They do not want to see their agenda challenged. That is why some use the demeaning term traitor, while others condemn GAFCON as a rival to the 2008 Lambeth Conference.
