TheAmerican Council of Christian Churches (ACCC) is afundamentalist organization set up in opposition to the Federal Council of Churches (nowNational Council of Churches).
The council's motto is Jude 3, "Earnestly contending for the Faith".
ACCC was founded in 1941 under the leadership ofCarl McIntire.[1]
Membership in the American Council of Christian Churches is available to denominations and individual Christians, who are admitted by a 3/4 majority vote. Agreement with the purposes and doctrinal statement are required and membership is specifically denied to those who have affiliations with
theWorld Council of Churches (WCC) or any of its affiliates, such as theNational Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. (NCC), theWorld Evangelical Fellowship (WEF) or any of its affiliates, such as theNational Association of Evangelicals (NAE), the modern Charismatic Movement, or theEcumenical Movement...
The ACCC has remained small in comparison to theNational Association of Evangelicals and theNational Council of Churches. This is due in part to its strongseparatist stance, and in part because separatist denominations will often not participate in "cross-denominational" organizations.
Dan Greenfield currently serves as Executive Secretary. Offices are inOrwell, Ohio.
In July 2007, the leadership of the ACCC issued a statement criticizing a recent declaration by theCongregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the meaning of the phrasesubsistit in which re-emphasized the role of the Catholic Church as the subsisting Church of Christ.[2]
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