Relations With Other Churches
FIEC is the largest corporate partner of Affinity, which was previously called the British Evangelical Council.
They also believe that Ecumenism in the form of Churches Together is not a positive move, citing various reasons including the liberal stance of other churches. The Trust Board has recently affirmed that formal membership of Churches Together (CT) is inconsistent with the FIEC Statement on Ecumenism. However a number of fellowships publicly profess their affiliation to CT.
Allegations of engagement in ecumenism by a missionary to Poland of Carey Baptist Church have also been made in articles in the July 2009 and January 2010 issues of the Bible League Quarterly, a journal once edited by the Fellowship's own founder, Rev E. J. Poole-Connor. This is regarded as controversial as it is alleged to be a violation of the Fellowship's own statement in 1996 opposing ecumenism. As an association of autonomous churches, the FIEC has defended the responsibility of Carey's elders to examine the allegations, but declined to examine them independently. The concerns were first raised in November 2008. On March 23, 2012, a modified statement on ecumenism was published and the old withdrawn. Further concerns about connections between prominent FIEC personalities and the Polish ecclesiastical scene were raised in 2012.
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