There were points where the group would be asked to look at its work again. Reservations centred largely on section 6, which sought to articulate the sort of commitments that arose out of an affirmation of the Instruments of Communion.
The task of the Design Group would be to produce at least two more drafts in a process designed to listen to all the points made around the Communion.
For decades, Anglicans had been wondering whether increasing diversity might force the provinces apart, and had asked what held them together. The days of undefined affection were sadly over; “yet this is also not a time when proposals which are brand new could win a broad consensus across the Communion. . .