---
title: 'The Significance of the Amsterdam Assembly'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'John Alexander Mackay'
date: 1949-12-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Ecumenism and Irenicism'
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
scriptures:
- 'John 17'
- 'Acts 1'
- 'Matthew 28'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/mackay-1949-the-significance-of-the-amsterdam-assembly
---

# The Significance of the Amsterdam Assembly

John A. Mackay on the Amsterdam World Council: unity under Christ, urging churches to be witnesses not merely worshippers, and stressing the laity's and seminaries' vital role.

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