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Digging Out the Embedded Church - The Maranatha Community

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What all three traditions have in common:<br />

All three major Christian traditions hold:<br />

• Personal love for Jesus as supreme Saviour and Lord.<br />

• Submission to <strong>the</strong> Holy Scriptures as <strong>the</strong> authority for all faith and conduct.<br />

• Confession of an early Christian Creed.<br />

Note on Eastern Orthodoxy:<br />

<strong>The</strong> Oriental Orthodox churches (Coptic, Syrian, Armenian and Ethiopian) which have been<br />

separated from <strong>the</strong> Orthodox <strong>Church</strong> since <strong>the</strong> 5 th Century because of <strong>the</strong>ir Monophysite<br />

teaching have now come toge<strong>the</strong>r with <strong>the</strong> Orthodox <strong>Church</strong> to try to reconcile <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

differences. An official dialogue took place at Chambésy (Geneva) between <strong>the</strong> two sides in<br />

December 1985. A second dialogue resulted in an „Agreed Statement‟ issued from <strong>the</strong> Anba<br />

Bishoy Monastery, Egypt, in June 1989. A second „Agreed Statement‟ came out of this<br />

dialogue in Chambésy in September 1990 through <strong>the</strong> Orthodox Centre of <strong>the</strong> Ecumenical<br />

Patriarchate.<br />

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