by Norman Goodall
Secretary of the Joint Committee of the World Council of Churches and the International Missionary Council The World Council of Churches, formed in 1948, is perhaps the most spectacular, outcome of the modern Ecumenical Movement. It now includes 170 Churches in full membership, many of them communities living under a Communist government; it has links with the Churches in the U.S.S.K. and with Christians in China. It has growing responsibility, yet without any concomitant authority: it is not, therefore, the embryo of ' the Coming Great Church. Nevertheless, Dr. GoodaU believes that the World Council is ' a movement, an agency, » set of relationships, through which this greater goal may be reached.'