COMMUNION OF ANGLICAN CHURCHES

What is the CACI SOUTH ASIA?

WHAT IS THE COMMUNION OF ANGLICAN CHURCHES INTERNATIONAL?

First of all, we are a communion Anglican churches.

The Communion of Anglican Churches international (the caci-south asia) is a communion of the one, holy catholic and apostolic Church. Our specific identity and self-understanding is rooted in the Anglican spiritual tradition of being Catholic, Evangelical and Protestant. 

We are a United Anglican Communion reflecting the unanimity and singularity of the Apostolic and Patristic Church, while encompassing both Protestant and Catholic traditions. As a communion, we celebrate and affirm biblical and anointed spiritual ministry throughout the world to everyone. There is only “one faith, one hope, and one baptism, one God, and Father of us all” (Eph. 4: 5-6), and therefore, one Head Jesus Christ, and one pure body of Christ, the Church.

Standing within the Celtic and Anglican spiritual traditions, The Communion of Anglican Churches international was created by a convergence of three great historical expressions of faith and practice: the Evangelical/Biblical, the Charismatic/Pentecostal, and the Liturgical/Sacramental traditions.

The Anglican tradition brings together the authority of the Bible, the historic faith, and the beauty of structured prayer. It is rooted in tradition, yet contemporary in practice. It is united in substance, yet diverse in expression. Anglicans are part of a global family living out our faith in local communities.

We are a communion led by bishops who have been consecrated in full apostolic succession. Our apostolic lines are Catholic, Old Catholic and Anglican. We are Episcopal because the early church, within the first generations after the apostles, appointed bishops to lead the Church

The Evangelical tradition brings a focus on the conviction that justification is the work of the triune God. As was so clearly stated in the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification By the Lutheran World Federation, and the Catholic Church, “The Father sent his Son into the world to save sinners. The foundation and presupposition of justification is the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Christ. Justification thus means that Christ himself is our righteousness, in which we share through the Holy Spirit in accord with the will of the Father. Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ’s saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works.”

The Pentecostal tradition recognizes the ever-present need for the infilling and empowering of the Holy Spirit. Christ’s initial apostles were wholly inadequate to the task the Lord set before them without the infilling of His Holy Spirit, as are we. His immutable grace, His constant filling, His abundant gifts and His unerring wisdom are necessary elements of our service to Him.

A communion embracing a multiplicity of expressions of worship and practice. In contrast to a denomination, a communion expresses the organic unity Jesus Christ originally established in His Body, the Church.

Communion of Anglican CHURCH international unequivocally declares its belief in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the Word of God, and the sole rule of faith and practice as interpreted by tradition, reason and experience. Our belief finds its boundaries of expression in three historic creeds, commonly called the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Creed of Saint Alucuin.  Moreover, we affirm the historical significance of the doctrines set forth in the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, as well as the values espoused in the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral, and the Chicago Call: An Appeal to Evangelicals.

The Anglican Communion is a global family of 85 million brothers and sisters – many living in poverty and conflict – united around the love of Jesus Christ. From Canterbury to Calcutta, and Manhattan to Nairobi, the Anglican Communion is one of the world’s largest and most diverse Christian communities.

There are many differences between individual Anglican Churches, but we hold four things in common:

1.       The Bible as a basis of our faith;

2.       The Nicene and Apostles’ Creeds, basic statements of Christian belief;

3.       Recognition of the sacraments of Baptism and Holy Communion, and others

4.       The historic episcopate, that is, the continuity of the line of bishops since the time of Christ. apostolic succession

It has been said that the Anglican Communion rests on the three pillars of Faith, Reason and Tradition. The unique strength of Anglicanism lies in our attempts to hold in balance these three aspects of our belief.

What do we believe?

The Communion of Anglican Churches identifies the following seven elements as characteristic of the Anglican Way, and essential for membership:

1.   We believe and confess Jesus Christ to be the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no one comes to the Father but by Him.

2.   We confess the canonical books of the Old and New Testaments to be the inspired Word of God, containing all things necessary for salvation, and to be the final authority and unchangeable standard for Christian faith and life.

3.   We confess Baptism and the Supper of the Lord to be Sacraments ordained by Christ Himself in the Gospel, and thus to be ministered with unfailing use of His words of institution and of the elements ordained by Him. We confess the godly historic Episcopate as an inherent part of the apostolic faith and practice, and therefore as integral to the fullness and unity of the Body of Christ.

4.   We confess as proved by most certain warrants of Holy Scripture the historic faith of the undivided church as declared in the three Catholic Creeds: the Apostles’, the Nicene, and the Athanasian.

5.   Concerning the seven Councils of the undivided Church, we affirm the teaching of the first four Councils and the Christological clarifications of the fifth, sixth and seventh Councils, in so far as they are agreeable to the Holy Scriptures.

6.   We receive The Book of Common Prayer as set forth by the Church of England in 1662, together with the Ordinal attached to the same, as a standard for Anglican doctrine and discipline, and, with the Books which preceded it, as the standard for the Anglican tradition of worship.

7.   We receive the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion of 1571, taken in their literal and grammatical sense, as expressing the Anglican response to certain doctrinal issues controverted at that time, and as expressing the fundamental principles of authentic Anglican belief.

Mission Statement

The Mission of the Communion of Anglican Churches is to share the love of God and to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ throughout the world.

Built upon the foundation of the authoritative Word of God, the Holy Scriptures, The Communion of Anglican Churches sets her highest priority on biblical worship and declares her commitment to the work of evangelism, the bold and unadulterated proclamation of salvation by the grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 8:4).  In keeping the faith once delivered to the saints, the Communion of Anglican Churches, however, does not believe evangelism to be the end, but rather the beginning of her divinely given vocation.

By planning and implementing pastoral, sacramental, charitable, educational and administrative services, the Communion of Anglican Churches, to the best of its ability and with the grace of God, will promote faith, hope and love.

• EQUIPPING SAINTS TO CONFORM TO CHRIST
• TRAINING THE YOUTH AND OBSCRUITY LEADERS
• Educate, Elevate & Excel ( EEE) the marginalized, discarded, unrecognized and orphan leaders to minster with power and authority.
• WORK WITH LIKEMINDED LEADERS AND ORGANISATIONS FOR THE EXPANSION OF His Kingdom work
• LIFTING THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS OF LEADERS
• CREATING HEALTHY CHURCHES
• LEGAL CARE AND PROTECTION FOR CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY