My conclusion is that the leadership is greasing the skids for a formal split. They have a fund established to protect the corporation from losing their grip on congregational property.
Visit any large city in the East and some the most impressive church structures you see will be Episcopal. But the congregations who frequent those edifices are graying and dwindling. Without heavy endowments, those old churches would not be able to keep their doors open. In Pittsburgh, one gorgeous stone church has been converted into a restaurant/brewery (The Church Brew Works). These old churches will be nothing but stones around the corporation's neck.
The action is in the suburbs, where newer, more alive churches have been started. Those newer churches are the ones located on valuable property which the corporation will fight for. Also overseas in poorer countries, it would be a crime for those congregations who decide to split to lose their property (in Africa, e.g.).
We need to pray for our kindred in Christ who find themselves in a very difficult situation because of the direction this convention is taking. Their paths will not be easy ones.
BINGO! That is exactly what happened in Canada with the United Church of Christ.
Pray for a split!