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ecumenical
The role of the Ecumenical Committee is to foster
ecumenical development in the life of the United Reformed Church:
The United Reformed Church's Basis of Union (para.8) commits the Church
to seek the unity of all God's people in the following words:
The United Reformed Church has been formed in obedience to the call to
repent of what has been amiss in the past and to be reconciled. It sees
its formation and growth as a part of what God is doing to make his
people one, and as a united church will take, wherever possible and
with all speed, further steps towards the unity of all God’s people.
The task of the Committee is to carry out this work in relation to
other churches and the wider community - in these islands, across
Europe, and throughout the world.
The committee will seek to ensure that wherever the United Reformed
Church meets, locally or nationally, in worship, council or committee,
it is working in partnership with Christians in the locality, the World
Church and the whole human family.
TASKS
Among the tasks of this committee is listening to
those with experience of the World Church, including other Christian
traditions in Britain and Ireland, and to those with experience of
current affairs and of other faiths.
The Committee will maintain official United Reformed Church links with
overseas churches and world and regional ecumenical organizations, in
particular the World Council of Churches, the World Alliance of
Reformed Churches and the Conference of European Churches. It will
guide the United Reformed Church’s participation in the Council for
World Mission.
Through it official contact will be made with British and Irish
ecumenical bodies.
The work of selecting, training and caring for missionaries and
overseeing exchange of personnel will be undertaken by the
International Exchange Sub-Committee.
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