The committee work
ecumenically with representatives from the Methodist Church, Wishaw Baptist Church, St Mark's (Church of Scotland), SouthWishaw Church (Church of Scotland),Wishaw Old Parish Church, St Aidan's, Overtown Parish (Church of Scotland), St Andrew's Eqpiscopal Church ANDWISHAW Old Parish Church where the event was held.
The contemporaneousness of the recent attack of Fr Mbaka by gunmen with the Peter Obi and the CBCN saga leaves us to a safe conclusion that the attack on Fr Mbaka may have either been politically engineered or
ecumenically endorsed, and thus we will not hesitate to call on the security agencies in this country to beam their searchlights and leave no stone unturned in getting to the root of this issue.
However, I think this is only true for
ecumenically involved Protestants, not for all of them.
While some Pentecostal churches have initiated ecumenical relationships--both with churches of different traditions and with ecumenical organizations, resulting in various levels of collaboration, other Pentecostal churches are
ecumenically sceptical.
The Unipermacultura commune describes itself as "a secular ecovillage, where we live
ecumenically respecting all manifestations and religious cults...
He or she also travels abroad to represent the national church internationally and
ecumenically. His or her ministry also includes speaking and writing "prophetically to the Anglican Church of Canada" and on behalf of the national church to the world, in consultation with other leaders of the church.
That council, in part, was meant to modernize the Church, opening it up to the world through deeper dialogue and partnership,
ecumenically in terms of other Christians, and those of other or no faiths.
We
ecumenically committed Christians at long last want to see actions.
The congregation initiated and now runs
ecumenically a full summer day camp called Footprints (footprintssummerdaycamp.org).
Could it be that Kung's lifelong efforts to encourage constructive and
ecumenically oriented reforms in the Catholic Church are finally getting the serious attention they merit?
He also notes how the cognate terms "deaconate" and "deacon" advanced in the 1960s from relative obscurity to feature prominently in the leading,
ecumenically agreed-upon statement on Christian ministry, namely, the 1982 World Council of Churches document Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry that described the church's ministry as "threefold," comprising bishops, presbyters, and deacons.