At long last I have made myself pull out Barth again. Thankfully, I have a few notes underlined so I can try to catch up where I was in his volume.

This is on the Church confession. It must be distinctively heard in the Church as the distinctively articulated voice of the fathers and brethren in faith. The Church lives where the confession is heard. To the negative, the Church does not really live where real Church confession is not hear in this distinctive way.