世界浸信会联盟（BWA）秘书长内维尔-卡拉姆（Neville Callam）在11月于瑞士日内瓦举行的世界基督教团体秘书委员会（CS-CWC）会议上提交了一份关于BWA工作的报告。
CS-CWC将全球基督教组织的负责人聚集在一起，讨论他们的工作，并一起交心。它包括来自天主教、东正教、新教、福音派、五旬节派和普世教会传统的领导人。
Callam told the gathering the process by which the BWA has been negotiating the challenges it faces as an international body that includes membership and participation of persons and organizations from diverse contexts.�� The BWA is a fellowship of 228 conventions and unions in 121 countries and territories comprising 42 million members in 177,000 churches.
卡拉姆特别提到了 浸礼会内部关系公约 which was adopted by the BWA General Council in its July 2013 meeting in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. The BWA leader emphasized that the document considers how members of the worldwide Baptist movement understand each other, how they communicate with each other, and how they interpret their participation in the BWA. The covenant provides a set of values around which BWA members could find consensus and is meant to address issues concerning relations among participants in the organized life of the Baptist family. The values affirmed may also serve as a guide to those involved in national or regional structures serving Baptist life “translocally.”
The covenant will, hopefully, help protect against any one group or perspective holding a privileged place in the way the BWA conducts its affairs, especially in light of the fact that the BWA first emerged as essentially a North Atlantic alliance at its founding in 1905. The intention is that the international Baptist body, the only one of its kind on a global scale for Baptists, would not be a victim of cultural captivity. “The Covenant should contribute to the reduction of tension among believers from various cultures when they gather to discern the mind of Christ on difficult issues of concern to them in the worldwide Baptist movement,” Callam said.
Callam告诉CS-CWC，挑战在于全球浸信会运动中的伙伴如何在践行圣约所包含的价值观时保持相互问责，特别是在圣约获得批准后的实施中。
卡拉姆还赞扬了关于信仰和秩序的文件。 教会中的道德鉴别力 as a resource on which the BWA may draw as supplemental support for the BWA covenant. “I do not believe this report is useful only in the process of understanding and adjudicating conflict in ecclesial life around issues of morals,” he said. “It also provides insights that may greatly assist one’s understanding of what is happening when groups meet to deliberate on a wide range of issues of concern within a Christian context.”
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