Page "Christadelphians" Paragraph 21

Since the reunions in the UK and Australia in 1957, two generations of Christadelphians have grown up with little awareness of the existence of the minority " fellowships ", or awareness that the main group is called " Central " by the minority groups.

Parallel with this generational change, the articles and books on the doctrine and practice of fellowship with the main " Central " grouping now reject the notion itself of separate " fellowships " among those who recognise the same baptism as " schism ".

A third significant change, outside North America, has been the shrinking of the minority " fellowships " due to defection to the main group and natural causes.

According to Bryan Wilson, functionally the definition of a " fellowship " within Christadelphian history has been mutual or unilateral exclusion of groupings of ecclesias from the breaking of bread.

This functional definition still holds true in North America, where two other sizeable groups, Unamended Christadelphians and the CGAF, are not received by most North American Amended ecclesias.

But outside North America this functional definition no longer holds.

Many ecclesias in the " Central " grouping would not refuse a baptised Christadelphian from a minority " fellowship " from breaking bread ; the exclusion is more usually the other way.