In 2003 I was ordained by Bishop James West of the Southeastern Diocese of the Reformed Episcopal Church to serve as a deacon at Trinity Reformed Episcopal Church in Maitland, Florida. However, after the pastor, Rev. James Reber, and I strongly disagreed over the issue of theonomy/reconstruction, I decided to resign in 2004.
The congregation was small to begin with but, since the demise of the church, Rev. Reber has apparently transferred his credentials to the Anglican Province of America and is pastoring a small church in Kississimee, Florida. Rev. Reber was once part of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and a solid Calvinist. He was educated at the Reformed Episcopal Seminary in Philadelphia. Apparently, the appeal of Anglo-Catholicism was too much for him?
While theonomy is divisive and heretical on the internecine level, I consider Anglo-Catholicism a greater threat to orthodoxy because it strikes at the very heart of the Gospel and the Protestant Reformation. May God help us to stand for the truth and for apostolic doctrine at all costs.
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There was no need for Reber to transfer his credentials in light of the concordat of intercommunion between the REC and the APA. Both may freely interchange ministers and ministers from both denominations may pastor churches in the other denomination and administer the sacraments of communion and baptism in the other denomination. For all practical purposes, the two denominations are already merged.
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