But Smith identifies women's ordination as the first and most significant existential challenge to the ACNA, and what he wrote contributed to the flurry of public online letters that the bishops of the ACNA received (here and here) leading up to the June meeting to elect a new archbishop. At one point Smith suggests that the differences over women's ordination are so irreconcilable they could portend a divorce:

Understanding Theological Error vs. Heresy

The Oxford divines challenged each of these with their own pre-Reformation ideas. In fact, Newman and others in the movement ended up leaving the Church of England for the Roman Catholic Church, leaving behind the ruins of a highfalutin and confused self-identity that is constantly in search for new ways to define itself apart from the traditional Anglican formularies (e.g., three-legged stool, lex orandi lex credendi, three-streams, instruments of unity, etc).

In the revised common lectionary used by the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, the collect for Pentecost Sunday asks that God may "send us out as witnesses to the wonder of your love". A recent report from the ACSA Synod of Bishops speaks of "our mission to share the love of Jesus with everyone". A search through the collects for the year finds only one collect explicitly referencing the Lord's charge to preach a message (or kerygma).