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A further
personal proposal by Bishop Colin Buchanan
While as a co-chairman I take my own share of responsibility for the agreed report above, I dissent from the recommendations in paragraph 74. I have believed throughout that it was our task to shadow the Formal Conversations, to relate our work to their final report, and to look for ways to engage the United Reformed Church in the next steps on from the Formal Conversations. However, the recommendations in paragraph 74 ignore the Formal Conversations. Instead they suggest a sequence of trilateral initiatives without any context in the implementation of the Formal Conversations report. I therefore propose, in place of the recommendations above, the following:
1. that the Church of England and the Methodist Church, in receiving the report of the Formal Conversations, should at the same time formally request a response from the United Reformed Church, such as to bring that church also into any resulting agreement or relationship between them.
2. that the United Reformed Church should then match the timetables of the Church of England and the Methodist Church, and should mirror the processes of those two churches, so that all three churches, in or through their central bodies
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