After contemplating joining, the leaders did not proceed with an actual union but there was a desire to continue a fruitful ecumenical relationship with it and other reformed churches.
That the potential of music for fostering ecumenical relationships be utilised to the full by the Church at all levels (503-504).
The Conference on Religious Development was commissioned to foster growing ecumenical relationships between Catholic and Protestant communions.
"Today, we made history in these two remarkable ecumenical relationships," said the Rev. H. George Anderson, the Lutherans' presiding bishop, the church's top official.
Although Krauth's Rule permitted exceptions, it was nonetheless a strong repudiation of the broad ecumenical relationships pursued by the General Synod.
From 1982 to 1990, he coordinated the ecumenical relationships of the Patriarchate.
The PCS participates in ecumenical relationships through:
Some AOG ministers responded with "new openness to ecumenical relationships", but others warned against "linking hands with modernists and liberals".
Since the second half of the 20th century, the Samoan church has continued to forge ecumenical relationships with other churches locally, regionally and internationally.
The LCS participates actively in ecumenical relationships through:
