What is the Difference Between the World Council of Churches and the International Council of Christian Churches?
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES AND THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES? These two church councils, operating on the world level, were both organized in Kinsterdarn, The Netherlands, August, 1948. Their purpose, testimony, and goals-are entirely different. The WCC received into its membership all manner of church groups, including modernists, evangelicals, unitarian, Greek Orthodox, and Communist-controlled. The ICCC has accepted into its membership only such bodies as maintain the purity and integrity of their confessions and which are thoroughly evangelical and Protestant. The WCC calls itself the ecumenical movement and is seeking to build an ecumenical church which ultimately will embrace all churches, including the Roman Catholic Church. The ICCC presents what is called the 20th Century Reformation movement and is seeking to defend the historic Christian faith from all the attacks being made upon it by the modernists, the, neo-orthodox, the
