A majority of the leadership of ECUSA has abandoned the apostolic teachings
- Bishop Steve Jecko
Sunday June 11th 2006

After sixty-six years of life, most of them seeking to follow Jesus Christ through my church - The Episcopal Church - I am now convinced that a majority of the leadership of my church has abandoned the apostolic teachings - particularly regarding biblical witness to Christian moral behavior - that Bishops are charged with protecting and promulgating. It is Palm Sunday, 2006 and we are singing one of my favorite hymns today at worship (my italics):

When I survey the wondrous cross, Where the young Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride. Forbid it Lord, that I should boast, Save in the cross of Christ my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood. The Hymnal 1982, Copyright The Church Pension Fund, 1985.

The words leaped off the page and forced some painful memories. I was suddenly struck that my life in ECUSA is chief among the vain things that charm me most and that I must be willing to sacrifice them to his blood if my Christian sensibilities are ever again to be in order. What arguably can be considered my “richest gain” (after my wife, children and grandchild) I must be willing to count as loss. And, as a life-long Episcopalian, oh how proud I have been of my ecclesiastical heritage, a pride that in the shadow of the Cross is only vanity.

How did I get to this point?

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