Many have lost track of the proposal. Here’s my take on the last 24 months. Mike Taliaferro -- San Antonio, Texas It was two years ago that nine brothers were asked in Seattle to pen a Unity Proposal. At the time, confusion was rife among our churches and there was no viable way that churches could cooperate internationally to accomplish … [Read more...]

For the past three years, most of our churches have taken painstaking and sober inventory of our past leadership deficiencies and failures, striving in general to replace hyper-authority, over-control, and rigid hierarchy with something new and prayerfully, more Biblically mature.  Clearly this has meant questioning not only the role of authority … [Read more...]

Related to the 2006 Plan for United Cooperation 1.  Why do we need a statement of belief? The use of belief statements can be both positive and negative, but our heritage tends to focus on the negative.  This sincere posture seems to be derived from times past when religious America was so convicted about many things, and matters of … [Read more...]

In the next month or so, a Unity Proposal will be presented for consideration by the brotherhood of churches known as the International Churches of Christ. It seemed necessary to send out an article in advance of the upcoming Unity Proposal due to a prevalent disconnect among many of our churches. Following this paper we will publish a four page … [Read more...]

November 1 is the due date to submit proposals to the Brotherhood Cooperation Proposal Group.  See the previous story and details published on DisciplesToday.net:    Process:  We request that all proposals be sent by November 1, 2005 to:  unity@chnts.net.  We will prayerfully review all proposals, synthesize the best … [Read more...]