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2000: Volume 10
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    Volume 10 number 4 (December 2000)
    "With the churches, not for them" - Nyomi

    Anna James to head preparatory committee

    Not one coordinator, but three

    Waldensian synod meets

    Dominus Iesus
    Reformed "disappointed and dismayed"

    Comment

    Extreme poverty, racism deny human rights

    Mission in unity
    Time to move beyond division

    Women in Samoa work for partnership and peace

    From the desk of the general secretary
    Jesus comes so that all may have life in fullness

    The Geneva spiritual appeal
    People of many faiths reject misuse of religion

    The Geneva spiritual appeal

    No to neo-nationalism in Japan

    Gender awareness
    Engendering change in the Pacific

    A message from Brisbane

    Reformed and Lutherans converge

    Towards church fellowship (1989)

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    In the light of the discovery that nothing stands in the way of church fellowship, we urge Lutheran and Reformed churches throughout the world who are members of the Lutheran World Federation and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches to declare full communion with one another. By this we mean:

    • Acknowledging that the condemnations pronounced upon one another in former times are no longer to be regarded as applicable in today's situation;
    • Establishing full pulpit and altar/table fellowship, with the necessary mutual recognition of ministers ordained for word and sacrament;
    • Committing themselves to growth in unity through new steps in church life and mission together...

    We propose that at every level of church life, member churches of the two traditions explore together what is needed in that particular situation for further growth in unity. Situations around the world are so diverse that new forms and styles of life together must be tailored to each context... At the international level, we call upon the Lutheran World Federation and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches to collaborate wherever possible in their work, studying what appropriate conclusions should be drawn for their life from the new relationship existing between Lutheran and Reformed member churches...

     

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