Purpose
The CCI:
- Aims to serve as a common organ for visible manifestation of unity, witness and service.
- Will assist the churches to address the issues affecting and threatening life.
- Will focus on issues of peace, justice and integrity of creation.
- Will explore new avenues to share and affirm God’s love through diakonia.
- Will seek other churches in India to consider joining this union
It has also appointed three commissions to explore the ways of working together:
(1) Commission on Mission to find out the possibility of opening new mission centers in different language areas of India in cooperation with one another
(2) Commission on Theological matters: to study the implication of closer relationships
(3) Commission on Peace and Justice: to consider national and international issues pertaining to Justice and Peace and the response of the Church to such situations.
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