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Churches in Covenant Communion: The Church of Christ Uniting
Churches in Covenant Communion The Church of Christ Uniting Author:Consultation on Church Union This document, together with its companion text, The COCU Consensus, issued four years earlier, constitutes a proposal for the emergence of the Church of Christ Uniting--a new ecclesial reality. It is not a new denomination, nor is it another council of churches; rather, it is a covenant communion of churches. In the Church of Christ Uniting, th... more »e richly varied cultures, traditions, and institutional forms of the several churches will continue to be distinguishable. At the same time these churches will enter into a new relationship of unity in things which are essential to the church's life, namely: faith, sacraments, ministry, and mission. It is church unity in a new form--not structural consolidation, but unity in diversity among churches which, though many, are one body in Christ.« less