When our General Assembly formally accepted COCU in 1995, this committed our General church and our Regions to participation in the process. Because we have a congregationally based system of church government, each congregation will be free to make its own choice when the time comes. The preferred time for this to happen in during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Many changes have been made since the Pittsburgh General Assembly. These changes will require General Assembly approval in 2001.
Church unity makes a lot of sense.
Well, as the saying goes, the devil is in the details. I don't know anybody who is against the unity of the church. I can't conceive of a Bible-believing person who would oppose it. But this particular proposal for manifesting unity has a number of serious problems. The process of moving toward COCU began with agreement on a common theological document that all the churches agreed expressed the basis of our unity.