1. The History of the Authority of the Local Church in the CCDC and the implications within the Hispanic ’s Disciples ethos Rev. Dr. Huberto Pimentel National Pastor for Hispanic Ministries
10. Our covenant conception of church requires that in devising these means, we acknowledge that congregations, regions, and general units functions as inseparable, interdependent, and complementary parts of the one body. The Church of the Disciples of Christ, Paul A. Crow, pag 84
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17. Every manifestation or expression of the church – congregational, regional, general – has a particular responsibility to discern and respond to God ’s call, but to do so in covenantal interdependence. The General Assembly, for example cannot dictate to the congregations, but neither are congregations free to ignore the corporate decision-making of the church in assembly ( M. Kinnamon,Jan Linn, pag 14)