The TAC, as the largest of the "Continuing" Anglican Churches, has achieved a remarkable degree of synodical unity and support for the unanimous stand of its bishops concerning the Holy See. The Primate is aware that the stand of the TAC - an Anglican Church actually seeking full communion with the See of Peter because it believes that such unity is of the essence of the Church - is controversial and newsworthy.

And the Network bishops are going to move beyond open letters and Pittsburgh meetings and start acting like they believe their rhetoric. Bishops like Peter Akinola and Henry Orombi can only do so much. If ECUSA spits in the faces of the Communion once again, then the Network bishops are going to have to proceed as if the split has happened whether it formally happens or not.

These churches are firm in their commitment to remain part of the world wide Anglican Communion, but due to conscience, find it spiritually necessary to separate themselves from the ECUSA now. The First Wave Churches are All Souls, Church of the Redeemer, both of Jacksonville , Grace Church, Orange Park , St. Michael's, Gainesville , St. Luke's Community of Life, Tallahassee , and Calvary , Jacksonville which realigned with an alternate Anglican jurisdiction on November 6th 2005 .

However, on the deepest of personal levels, I have to confess that I really do not understand this decline. I do not know why a majority of our congregations cannot grow. Personally, I am baffled by the number of churches that I see failing to attract new people. The reason that I am so baffled is based on my experience as a leader over all these years.