Word: intercommunion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REPORT ON UNITY, in its tortured study of intercommunion, most acutely reflected the wide diversity of belief within the Council. The report urged member churches to strive for a "mutual recognition of ministries" as a first step toward recognition of members, suggested that local churches-even while prohibited from sharing the Lord's Supper-could grow together through "common worship, Bible study groups, prayer cells, joint visitation, common witness in our communities." At major interfaith meetings, intercommunion could be allowed even when union was not in sight. Perhaps, the report went on, the matter might better be resolved...
...many churches in the United States," he says. Too many people, he feels, are willing to settle for unity among the Christian churches rather than out and out union. ''The other day, a student at Union Theological Seminary asked me why the goal shouldn't be intercommunion rather than union. Well, if you're going to make the effort-the prodigious effort-for intercommunion, why not go all the way and try for union itself...
...This is more important than words." But at assembly's end, the young enthusiasts faced the fact that they could not permanently kick over the denominational traces - a resolution failed to pass that called upon the churches to give "young people, at least, permission to make experiments" in intercommunion...