As I wrote earlier, at the beginning of June 2006 I attended a seminar - organised by the World Council of Churches - titled: 'Mission as Proclamation of the Gospel: towards a new ecumenical agenda for evangelism in the 21st century'.
42 of us took part in the seminar. Lots of churches around the world had identified the subject matter as a highly important priority, and many of them had sent their ‘top’ theologians and bishops to be present. One German denomination had even appointed their General Secretary as a delegate.
BUT Alistair Cook (a Church of Scotland ordinand) and I were the only two from the UK. We had made our own applications and arrangements to attend the seminar. Neither of us hold a position of any authority within our denominations, and we were both extremely disappointed not only that our own denominations had not seen fit to appoint any official delegates, but that NONE of the UK churches had done so.
I now have some very serious questions about how committed the UK churches actually are to this sort of international ecumenical dialogue!
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