For Christians……?
February 282010
Have you heard about the World Council of Churches (WCC)?
What do you think of them? Is your church a member?
The following is from their website: http://www.oikoumene.org/?id=1637
The World Council of Churches (WCC) is the broadest and most inclusive among the many organized expressions of the modern ecumenical movement, a movement whose goal is Christian unity.
The WCC brings together 349 churches, denominations and church fellowships in more than 110 countries and territories throughout the world, representing over 560 million Christians and including most of the world’s Orthodox churches, scores of denominations from such historic traditions of the Protestant Reformation as Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist and Reformed, as well as many united and independent churches. While the bulk of the WCC’s founding churches were European and North American, today most are in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific.
For its member churches, the WCC is a unique space: one in which they can reflect, speak, act, worship and work together, challenge and support each other, share and debate with each other. As members of this fellowship, WCC member churches:
* are called to the goal of visible unity in one faith and one eucharistic fellowship;
* promote their common witness in work for mission and evangelism;
* engage in Christian service by serving human need, breaking down barriers between people, seeking justice and peace, and upholding the integrity of creation; and
* foster renewal in unity, worship, mission and service.
1 John 2:15 " Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him."
March 1st, 2010 at 2:05 am
The WCC has done some incredible work in Christianity, doing exactly what you are mentioning. The Anglican Church, i.e. Church of England is very involved and N.T. Wright has written about the WCC, and thank you for finally presenting an organization, in which many people are unaware. Peace!
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March 1st, 2010 at 2:54 am
My church is not and would not be a member.
How can you have unity where there are such extremely different points of view on essentials of the faith?
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March 1st, 2010 at 3:30 am
no I have not, and apparently ours is not.
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March 1st, 2010 at 4:01 am
1 John 2:15 " Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him."
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March 1st, 2010 at 4:17 am
Information regarding a presenter, Chung Hyung Kyung, at one of the WCC gatherings.
Praying to the trees. Korea’s Chung Hyung Kyung told the crowd, “My bowel is Buddhist bowel, my heart is Buddhist heart, my right brain is Confucian brain, and my left brain is Christian brain.” This is ecumenical schizophrenia of the most radical sort! Chung is a professor at Korea’s Ewha Women’s University, the world’s largest university for women, with 20,000 students.
Chung instructed the crowd of women to seek help from the trees if they are in need of energy: “When we do pranic healing, we believe that this life-giving energy came from god and it is everywhere, it is in the sun, in the ocean, from the ground and it is from the trees. We ask god’s permission to use this life-giving energy for our sisters and brothers in need. If you feel very tired and you don’t have any energy to give, what you do is … go to a big tree and ask it to ‘give me some of your life energy’” (AFA Journal, Feb. 1994).
Chung has published a rewrite of the Gospel narratives from an Asian feminist perspective. She told the Minneapolis conference, “The Bible is basically an open book, and I want to add the next chapter.”
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http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/wcc.html