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The report results from seven years' work by a dedicated group drawn from the World Council of Churches and the Roman Catholic Church. The character of the document is intentionally educational. The group believed that it would in this way best serve the interest of all who wish to know not only the Joint Working Group's agenda but the growing relationship of the WCC and the RCC within the broader perspective of the one ecumenical movement which the group has witnessed and in some measure assisted.

Bericht des Weisungsausschusses für Grundsatzfragen II
- wie von der Achten Vollversammlung angenommen - Dezember 1998

Bible study on Exodus 5:1 led by John Fotopoulos at the May 1997 consultation on the theme: "Towards a Common Understanding of the Theological Concepts of Laity/Laos: The People of God."

Dieser Text ist aus dem gemeinsam von Glauben und Kirchenverfassung und dem ÖRK-Team für Gerechtigkeit, Frieden und Schöpfung durchgeführten Studienprogramm zu Ekklesiologie und Ethik hervorgegangen. Er, und die beiden im gleichen Zusammenhang entstandenen Texte "Costly Commitment" und "Costly Obedience" (nur auf englisch verfügbar) sind das Ergebnis von Tagungen in Rønde/Dänemark, Jerusalem/Israel und Johannesburg/Südafrika und beschäftigen sich mit der Berufung der Kirchen, in der heutigen Welt eine Gemeinschaft zu sein, die über ethische Fragen nachdenkt - und ethisch handelt.

This text developed by Faith and Order is another of the "unity statements" adopted by WCC Assemblies over the years. It is one attempt to indicate the elements of "full communion" among churches.

Poor and oppressed people, who are at the margins of the world's concern, should be at the centre of Christian service, insisted the 300 participants in the 1986 global ecumenical consultation on interchurch aid in Larnaca, Cyprus. Diakonia, they said, is "liberating and transforming, suffering and empowering". Christian service cannot be separated from the struggle for justice and peace; therefore, advocacy, solidarity and sharing of skills are as essential to diakonia as the giving of money.