Churches Together in Derbyshire
Helping Christian Churches and Groups to work
together locally
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Churches Together in Derbyshire unites those churches in Derbyshire which, acknowledging God’s revelation in Christ, confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour according to the Scriptures; and in obedience to God’s will and in the power of the Holy Spirit commit themselves to seek a deepening of their communion with Christ and with one another in the Church which is His Body, and to fulfil their mission to proclaim the Gospel by common witness and service in the world, to the Glory of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. |
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Churches Together in Derbyshire Unity in diversity |
When “Churches together in England” was formed in 1990, it was agreed that support of Local Ecumenical Partnerships and local Churches Together Groups should come not nationally but locally through the growing “Intermediate Bodies”.
Churches Together in Derbyshire is one such “Intermediate Body”. Almost uniquely in the world, church life in England has developed a network of these bodies, mostly corresponding to counties or large cities, where the churches have developed a pattern of co-operation and shared life which also gives oversight to ecumenism in its various forms.
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In such ways Christian Churches are developing a shared oversight of the whole people of God, reflecting their movement towards joint decision making and mutual accountability.
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