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Which church has been at the forefront of the ecumenical movement?

By their own admission, the Seventh-day Adventist Church as been at the forefront of the ecumenical movement:

"Back in 1926, long before ecumenism was in vogue, the General Conference Executive Committee adopted an important statement that is now a part of the General Conference Working Policy (075). This declaration has significant ecumenical implications. The concern of the statement was for the mission field and relationships with other "missionary societies." However, the statement has now been broadened to deal with "religious organizations" in general. It affirms that Seventh-day Adventists "recognize those agencies that lift up Christ before men as a part of the divine plan for evangelization of the world, and. . .hold in high esteem Christian men and women in other communions who are engaged in winning souls to Christ." In the church's dealings with other churches, "Christian courtesy, frankness, and fairness" are to prevail..." ( Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia, Second Revised Edition, 1995, Art. "Ecumenism,")

As far back as 1926, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 180-degree reversal, voted to recognize all Christian churches and missionary societies (including the Jesuits whom until 1926 were regarded by the church founders as 'the most cruel, unscrupulous, and powerful of all the champions of popery' Great Controversy, page 234) as part of God's "plan for evangelization of the world" and are to be held in " high esteem."

Five years later, in 1931, the Seventh-day Adventist Church dropped their doctrinal position on the Godhead, and adopted the Roman Catholic Trinity doctrine. Without this unprecedented doctrinal compromise, it was going to be an almost impossible mission to convince the Christian world of the genuineness of the turnaround that took place in 1926, on the part of the Seventh-day Adventist leadership. This reversal of position has indeed undone all that the church stood for, and represents the greatest betrayal to the Reformers, and His martyrs through out history.

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