Agape Press: The nation's largest Evangelical denomination has no plans to join a new religious alliance. The alliance is called "Christian Churches Together in the USA" and would include mainline Protestants, Orthodox Christians, and the Roman Catholic Church.
Bob Edgar, general secretary of the National Council of Churches, describes the group as "a new forum for leaders of the nation's churches to discuss topics of common interest and grow in their relationships with one another."
Many of the NCC's 36 participating denominations have joined CCT. But the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, has no plans to get involved in the new alliance.
Other Evangelical and Pentecostal churches have opted not to join the group as well. Dr. Richard Land, president of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, says it would not be wise to join in the ecumenical endeavor and portray a unified faith when theological differences between the represented groups vary so widely.
