The Anglican Church in America is not a new Church

The Anglican Church in America continues to be the Church to which Anglicans have always belonged.  It continues steadfast in the Faith, Order, and discipline of that Church.  Thus it has become the Continuing Anglican Church here in America.

Anglicans have inherited from the Churches of England and Ireland the Faith of the undivided primitive Church; together with the Apostolic Orders of Bishop, Priest, and Deacon, in succession from the Apostles and Our Lord; and also the discipline and moral standards of the historic Christian Church from the beginning.

We are Anglo-Catholic, emphasizing the fact that we hold "the whole truth as it is in Jesus Christ, who is the same yesterday, today and forever."  Saint Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, in the second century coined the word "Catholic," meaning wholeness or completeness.  A Catholic Christian was, and is, one who holds the fullness of the Christian Faith as set forth in Holy Scripture.

We are Anglican and Catholic in background

We accept all that Jesus Christ has taught us.  He is the eternal Son of God, the Way, the Truth, and the Light, who was born into this world as a human child of the Virgin Mary, lived among us as a perfect human being, died on the Cross, rose from the dead, and lives and reigns for evermore.  He is the center of our Faith; no one else.  What we believe we believe because of Him.  He is the Standard of what is right or wrong, and true and false, not what society or the contemporary world thinks.

Because we believe in Jesus Christ, we believe in the Bible.  We believe in the Bible because it speaks of Him, His acts and His teachings.  It points forward to them in the Old Testament; it relates them directly in the Gospels; it looks back on them and reflects on them in the Acts and the Epistles.  It looks forward to His Second Coming and the final Judgement of mankind in the Book of Revelation.  The Bible is infinitely precious to us because of Jesus Christ, we do not seek to avoid it, change it or to explain it away.  We use it in worship through the historic Book of Common Prayer.

Because we believe in Jesus Christ, we accept the Creeds.  They summarize what Christians, guided by the Holy Spirit, have always believed about Him.  We recite them with confidence.  They express the convictions by which we want to live and die.

Because we believe in Jesus Christ, we accept His commandments.  We know that we are responsible to Him as the Judge of all mankind.  We also know that we often fail to measure up to them, but He offers us forgiveness of sins and His Holy S[pirit to overcome our weaknesses and shortcomings and make us more like Him.

The Essentials of Truth and Order

The Church is the Body of Christ at work in the world.  She is the society of the Baptized called out from the world; in it, but not of it.  As Christ's faithful Bride, she is different from the world, and must not be influenced by it.  We repudiate all deviations from the Faith in whole or in part, and bear witness to the essential principles of evangelical Truth and Apostolic Order.

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