Columba Declaration Between Church of Scotland and Church of England

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Here's the summary from the CofE:

https://www.churchofengland.org/med...h-of-england-reach-an-historic-agreement.aspx

Arranged into four chapters, the report sets out the history of partnership between the two churches and the shared beliefs that allow for close cooperation between the churches, before exploring how the partnership could grow.

This year the churches established the Churches' Mutual Credit Union as a response to concerns that low-income families needed access to low -cost banking and loans. And that's just one of the areas where the two churches already are collaborating.
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"THE COLUMBA DECLARATION

38. In the light of our common mission and context (chapter 1), our agreement in faith (chapter 2) and our significant opportunities for growing in partnership in mission (chapter 3), we recommend that our churches make the following Declaration.

We, the Church of Scotland and the Church of England, make the following acknowledgements and commitments, which are interrelated.

a) Acknowledgements

(i) We acknowledge one another's churches as churches belonging to the One, Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ and truly participating in the apostolic ministry and mission of the whole people of God.

(ii) We acknowledge that in both our churches the word of God is truly preached, and the sacraments of Baptism and the Holy Communion are rightly administered.

(iii) We acknowledge that both our churches share in the common confession of the apostolic faith.

(iv) We acknowledge that one another's ordained ministries of word and sacraments are given by God as instruments of grace and we look forward to a time when growth in communion can be expressed in fuller unity that makes possible the interchangeability of ministers.

(v) We acknowledge that personal, collegial and communal oversight (episkope) is embodied and exercised in our churches in a variety of forms, as a visible sign expressing and serving the Church's unity and continuity in apostolic life, mission and ministry.

b) Commitments

We commit ourselves to grow together in communion and to strengthen our partnership in mission. Through this commitment, we hope to enrich our continuing relationships with other churches in the United Kingdom and around the world. We will welcome opportunities to draw other churches into the activities and initiatives that we share.

As part of that commitment, we will continue to:

(i) pray for and with one another;
(ii) welcome one another's members to each other's worship as guests and receive one another's members into the congregational life of each other's churches where that is their desire;
(iii) explore opportunities for congregational partnership, formal as well as informal, in those cases where there are churches in close geographical proximity;
(iv) enable ordained ministers from one of our churches to exercise ministry in the other church, in accordance with the discipline of each church;
(vi) identify theological issues that arise from growth towards fuller communion and be prepared to allocate resources to addressing them;
(vii) work together on social, political and ethical issues that arise from our participation in public life and be prepared to allocate resources to joint initiatives for addressing them."
 
Desperate Liberals clinging to each other for support instead of returning to Christ and His Word.

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Essentially not unlike the high degree of cooperation between the PCUSA, Episcopalians, Evangelical Lutherans, and Roman Catholics. From an historical, confessional, and biblical perspective it makes absolutely no sense as to why they would be so quick to talk about recognizing baptisms and exchanging ministers, yet here they're trying to make it work rather than, as Pearitach pointed out, returning to the Word.
 
Essentially not unlike the high degree of cooperation between the PCUSA, Episcopalians, Evangelical Lutherans, and Roman Catholics. From an historical, confessional, and biblical perspective it makes absolutely no sense as to why they would be so quick to talk about recognizing baptisms and exchanging ministers, yet here they're trying to make it work rather than, as Pearitach pointed out, returning to the Word.

Now if we could only get the Reformed Baptist to recognize paedobaptism in the solid reformed churches. ;)
 
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