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BEDFORD, Texas — Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., spoke to the Anglican Church of North America (ACNA), which left the Episcopal church in a dispute over allowing gay clergy.
Warren reminded those in attendance that God calls Christians to have a great commitment to the Great Commission, which will grow a great church.
Warren told the Washington Times that he jumped at the chance to speak to the delegates to the constitutional convention of the newly created ACNA.
"We will stand with you in solidarity as God does something new in your midst," said Warren.
"God has not called the Anglican Church of North America to be a reactionary group. In the first place, you didn't leave them,” said Warren.
That statement, according to the Washington Times, got sustained applause. ACNA members say that they have continued in the traditions of Anglicanism, which the Episcopal Church left by ordaining practicing gay priests and bishops and taking unorthodox positions on biblical authority.
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