Image via WikipediaI posted a series about the Closer Working Consultation during August. There are eight earlier posts, starting with an account of the consultation, which you might like to visit if you have not seen this material before. I promised to publish the consultation resolution as soon as the wording had been agreed.This resolution is intended for local churches. If you are a member of one of the churches mentioned, please leave a comment about whether or not you support the resolution, your reasons and ideas about how it might be rolled out.
The resolution will go to the first ever joint meeting of the Methodist Council and United Reformed Mission Council during October. It will be one of several optional papers for group work. Groups will be able to make recommendations to the final session. The resolution will also be discussed at several other meetings over the next few months.
The Uniting Churches in Britain
The United Reformed/Methodist consultation “Closer Working” meeting at Woodbrooke Hall Birmingham in April 2010, affirms both the valuable ecumenical work taking place across Britain and the urgent mission imperative to more effectively empower this work. We call upon our two churches to work with the Church of England, the Episcopal Church of Scotland and the Church in Wales, to create a higher profile for a movement towards visible unity that brings into being “Uniting Churches in Britain”, The consultation therefore invites the appropriate bodies of our two churches (both “centrally” and locally) and any other interested churches to make the following affirmation:
We recognise that the Anglican/Methodist Covenant, the growing shared work between the Methodist Church and the United Reformed Church and agreements between our two churches in Scotland and Wales mean that the three churches, Anglican, Methodist and United Reformed are on a journey together with a goal of full visible unity. We invite others who share this goal to join us on this journey. To aid the recognition of this journey together in the mission work we undertake, we commit ourselves to work together to become more visibly “Uniting Churches in Britain”.
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