Editing Churches Uniting in Christ (section)

=== Mutual Recognition and Mutual Reconciliation of Ministries (MRMRM) ===
One of the most difficult issues concerning recognition and reconciliation of ministries was that of the historic episcopate. This was one of the issues that defeated proposals for union by COCU as well. The group approached this problem through dialogue, soliciting information from each member communion on the particularities of their theology and ecclesiology in order to come to a mutually acceptable conclusion.

CUIC released the seventh and final draft of the MRMRM document in June 2005.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Rosner| first = Patrice| title = A Deepening Dialogue | journal = Call to Unity| issue = 7 | pages = 1–2 | date = December 2006 }}</ref>  Much work was done in 2006 on this document, which focused on "Episkope," the oversight of ministry. The work culminated in a consultation on episkope in St. Louis in October 2006 involving the heads of communion of the members of CUIC. At this consultation, the MRMRM document was met with resistance, and concern was raised in particular that CUIC was focusing too narrowly on reconciliation of ministries and "not taking seriously our commitment to working on those issues of systemic racism that remain at the heart of our continuing and separated life as churches here in the United States."<ref name="disciples2006">{{cite web|last=Welsh |first=Robert |title=CUIC and the Dance of Ecumenism |date=November 2006 |url=http://www.disciples.org/ccu/fromthepresident/past/2006November.html |access-date=15 August 2012 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>