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ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF THE CHURCHES: MAIN TASKS AND DIFFICULTIES
Bogdan Dolenc
Sažetak
In the presentation of the tasks and difficulties that WCC is facing today I relied purposely on the texts of the secretary general of the WCC (Rev. dr. Samuel Kobia) who by his function knows in a satisfactory manner the present ecumenical moment and the state of the Council. I will conclude with two of his texts that reveal that in spite of difficulties he is full of optimism and hope relying of the faith that the future unity is a part of the “plan of God” that will not perish: “Christians throughout the world reached this understanding: if we are bound, and if we work together as one, our serving of the Christ and testimony for him is reinforced. The fruit of a hundred years of dialogue, collaboration and growing community (koinonia) is that now the spirit of ecumenism is alive in all our Churches. (…) Since the unity is God’s gift to the Church, we strongly feel the distress of the separations, and we are all the more disturbed by ideological disputes, therefore we pray more ardently that Holy Ghost might bring healing to the body of Christ. In the last years, “healing” became the constant theme of ecumenical conferences and meetings”. Addressing pope Benedict XVI during a meeting in Vatican, on 16th July 2005, secretary general dr. Samuel Kobio stated again his ecumenical hope: “We understood that our faith is more efficient and alive if we live it together with brothers and sisters in Christ, that our proclamation and prophetical testimony, our mission and serving are more efficient if we can pray, profess faith, speak and act together, not only individually. Therefore at the end, I return to the theme of unity. In Baptism Christ made us his own. With this appurtenance He inseparably tied us to Him as well to each other. Our relationship of unity is indestructible, since it is not rooted in us, but is Christ. We are one in Christ. Let all the Christians pray together and work together so that our unity might become visible to the whole world”.
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121853
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Datum izdavanja:
21.1.2011.
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