Bishop David Bena sees revival among American Anglicans

Allie Martin
OneNewsNow
10/2/2009

Clergy and lay delegates representing the Anglican District of Virginia (ADV) are meeting this weekend to look at the future of Anglicanism in the United States.

The ADV is holding its annual synod. The theme is "Living as Anglicans: Impacting the Present - Preparing the Future." Since its formation more than two years ago, the Anglican District of Virginia has grown to 31 congregations that left the Episcopal Church USA because of that denomination's liberal leanings.

Bishop David Bena says the growth of the ADV shows there are many Anglicans who want to follow God's Word instead of following changing cultural trends.

"We have about 9,000 people in the pews on a given Sunday, [but] what's being said is probably more important than numbers," he shares. "I see a real revival of Christianity going on across the continent, and it's having an effect in the Anglican realm as well."

Bena says evangelism will be emphasized during the synod. "We have inherited a wonderful way of sharing the gospel in word and deed, sometimes from a little more intellectual level," he says. "Our commission from God is to bring people into a dynamic relationship with Jesus Christ, and then to disciple them so that they can make new disciples." Here

The ADV is part of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America