What do you know about Christian World Communions? Print

The statement about the Christian World Communions (CWC) can be obtained from the official website of the World Council of Churches (WCC). It is only there that you can obtain the list of churches making up the CWC and a brief statement about it. Here is what you will find when you visit the WCC website written about the CWC:

"International organizations of churches of the same tradition or confession have been formed since the middle of the 19th century. Since 1957 there have been annual informal gatherings of the secretaries of such organizations; and it is from among the bodies represented at these meetings that this list is taken."

The list of churches which make up the CWC as found in the WCC official website is as follows:

Anglican Communion

Baptist World Alliance

Disciples Ecumenical Council

Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

Friends World Committee for Consultation

International Old Catholic Bishops' Conference

Lutheran World Federation

Mennonite Central Committee

Mennonite World Conference

Moravian Church World Wide Unit Board

Moscow Patriarchate [Russian Orthodox Church]

Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

Reformed Ecumenical Council

Salvation Army

Seventh-day Adventist Church

World Alliance of Reformed Churches

World Convention of Churches of Christ

World Evangelical Alliance

World Methodist Council

As to the leaders of the CWC, the following press release reveals that a prominent Seventh-day Adventist leader, Dr. John Graz, serves as secretary general of this religious body:

World Church: Christian World Communions Meet, Elect Leaders

Libna Stevens (Nov 9, 2004)

John R. Graz, Public Affairs and Religious Liberty director for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, was re-elected secretary general of the Conference of Secretaries of Christian World Communions, or CS/CWC.

Dr. John R. Graz, public affairs and religious liberty director for the Seventh-day Adventist Church world headquarters. [Photo ANN Staff]

Buenos Aires, Argentina .... [ANN Staff]

The group represents 2 billion Christians from a variety of denominations globally. Dr. Setri Nyomi of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ghana, and executive secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, was elected CS/CWC president at the Oct. 23 to 28 conference.

Since 1957, the CS/CWCs have met annually for an informal exchange of ideas and information. Graz was among several Christian leaders who met with Argentinian officials including Alberto Fernández, chief of the cabinet; Oscazr Parrilli, general secretary of the Presidency; and José Cardoso, general director of the National Registry of Religions. Presentations were made to the group by representatives of the ecumenical community: the Baptists, Pentecostals, Anglicans and the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Graz's election continues a 34-year run of Adventist Church representatives participating in the world organization. Last year he succeeded Dr. Bert B. Beach, director for Interchurch Relations for the Adventist world church, in that position.

"The meeting was important because our [local church] president was invited to introduce the work of the Adventist Church in Argentina," Graz noted. "During that meeting we heard several lectures about the religious and social situation in Argentina and how the various Christian churches live together. We also had a government report on church and state relations," he added.

The substance of those reports, Graz said, is that while the Roman Catholic Church is the official church of the country, other churches are not discriminated against.

From the above press release we draw the following facts:

Since 1957 the Seventh-day Adventist Church has been involved with CWC.
Dr. Bert B. Beach, former director for Interchurch Relations for the Adventist world church (of whom amongst his many ecumenical accomplishments was the presenting of a gold medal, as token of friendship, to the Pope Paul VI in August 1977), was a former secretary general of CWC, until the election of Dr. John Graz..
The Seventh-day Adventist Church of today takes great pride in belonging to a 2 billion Christian world wide body; it is no longer a disparaged sect, like it was before they embarked on their highly successful ecumenical course.
That although involvement with CWC was going on for many decades, yet it was made public in this 2004 press release, so that all members may be informed about it.

We end up our answer to this question by asking the time honored question of our loving heavenly Father in Amos 3:3: Can two walk together, except they be agreed? And what about Paul's piercing question: Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make [them] the members of an harlot? God forbid (1 Corinthians 6: 15). By uniting with the fallen churches, even in as loosely set an organization as the CWC may be, the Seventh-day Adventist has in effect [by the inspired pronouncement of Paul] become a harlot church.

Is there anyone who may suppose that Adventist leaders would be elected for such a prestigious ecumenical body if they were heavily involved in sharing with the leaders of the other ecumenical churches the truth of the Three Angels' Messages? Is there anyone naive enough to suppose that the director of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity would vote to elect Dr. John Graz if the latter was involved in the distribution of the Great Controversy amongst the representatives of the CWC?

When will God's people still trapped in this once-chosen-to-be-His-church-but-has-since been-rejected-because-of-its-apostasy wake up and abandon ship before they drown along with the mixed multitude?

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