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    The National Council of Churches in Australia Covenanting Statement

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    [...]n Churches
    COVENANTING
    TOGETHER[...]e churches in Australia to engage in a process of covenanting together at the national level,
    has been grounded[...]in the Ecumenical Movement
    While the language of ‘covenanting’ is not the language familiar in some tr[...]ienced and the agreements
    already achieved” 4.

    Covenanting in Australia
    In Australia, the formation of the N[...]hurches in 1994 was an expression of the churches
    covenanting together, seeking to draw some of the consequence[...], their response to the
    invitation to engage in a covenanting process is another act of commitment to one anoth[...]e way to visible unity.
    The nature of the current covenanting proposal – set out on the following pages (“A Commitment to
    Covenanting”) - is multi-dimensional. This is because it is[...]ards a deeper experience of communion (koinonia).
    Covenanting together at the national level will also g[...]
    [...]Church.


    Biblical Basis of Covenant
    The motif of covenanting permeates the story of the people of God in the J[...]union (koinonia). They are thus rightly seen as
    a covenanting community.

    Implications of Covenant
    A biblical theology of covenant enables an ecclesiology of covenanting. We make covenant with one another in
    grat[...]to the
    Church’s mission, the challenge of this covenanting process for the NCCA member churches is to[...]
    [...]COMMITMENT TO
    A COVENANTING
    PROCESS


    Th[...]pared to renew our commitment through this act
    of covenanting.




    It is noted that some member churche[...]onstitution
    It is noted that the use of the word ‘covenanting’ in this document may differ from, but d[...]
    THE COVENANTING DOCUMENT[...]ge in an
    ongoing process of growing together (covenanting), not knowing what
    visible form unity, which[...]ethodist Church in Australia 5


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    Signed the covenanting Document at NCCA 6th Forum July 2007
    [...]Uniting Church in Australia




    6
    Signed the covenanting Document at NCCA 7th Forum July 2010
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    Signed the covenanting Document at NCCA 6th Forum July 2007
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    Signed the covenanting Document at NCCA 7th Forum July 2010
    [...]Uniting Church in Australia

    9
    Signed the covenanting Document at NCCA 7th Forum July 2010
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    Signed[...]sion at NCCA 7th Forum July 2010
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    Signed the covenanting Document at NCCA 7th Forum July 2010
    [...]niting Church in Australia




    13
    Signed the covenanting Document at NCCA 7th Forum July 2010
    14[...]
    [...]sion at NCCA 7th Forum July 2010
    17
    Signed the covenanting Document at NCCA 7th Forum July 2010. Whil[...]
    [...]Uniting Church in Australia


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    Signed the covenanting Document at NCCA 7th Forum July 2010
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    Signed[...]sion at NCCA 7th Forum July 2010
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    Signed the covenanting Document at NCCA 7th Forum July 2010
    [...]commitment
    to this covenanting process.

    At this point in our jo[...]Uniting Church in Australia

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    Signed the covenanting Document at NCCA 6th Forum July 2007
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    Signed the covenanting Document at NCCA 7th Forum July 2010
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    Signed the covenanting Document at NCCA 6th Forum July 2007
    added dimensions at NCCA 7th Forum July 2010
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    Signed the covenanting Document at NCCA 7th Forum July 2010

    MD

    Australian Churches Covenanting Together