First Meeting of Lutheran-Reformed Joint Commission
The first meeting of the Lutheran-Reformed Joint Commission took place from 1 to 7 July 2006 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, hosted by the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC).
Co-sponsored by the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and WARC, the Commission discussed reports on the current structures and practices of Lutheran-Reformed relations from regional perspectives. The Commission is, among other things, responsible for a study project on structures of church communion, reflecting on the diversity and complementarity of ecclesiological approaches within the two confessional families as they move toward new forms of communion.
At its next meeting to be hosted by the LWF in August 2007, the Commission will consider the different understandings of confessions, their role and authority in the life of the churches and ecumenically. The LWF and WARC have been in formal international dialogue since the early 1980s.
