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Christian Community Churches of Australia
The Christian Community Churches of Australia are a network of Open Brethren churches, or "assemblies", in Australia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://cccvat.com.au/#8-open-brethren )〕 They do not form a denomination in the organizational sense, but rather a network of like-minded autonomous local churches.
== Brethren history in Australia ==
Brethren assemblies have existed in Australia since the 1850s. Holding congregational autonomy as a core principle, they long resisted forming any kind of central organization, preferring to operate as a network bound together by relationships rather than organized bodies. A number of organizations aiming to support the Brethren movement did arise, however, and gained widespread acceptance among the assemblies. These included the Stewards Foundation (established 16 July 1965). A national committee was established in 2006,〔 which was subsequently incorporated as the Christian Community Churches of Australia. Not all Brethren assemblies affiliated to it immediately; the Western Australian Brethren did not join it until 2013.〔
The Open Brethren in Australia have been embarrassed by negative publicity surrounding the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, a hardline branch of the Exclusive Brethren (and the only Exclusive group to exist in significant numbers in Australia), which some defectors have accused of being a cult. The Open Brethren decision to rebrand itself as the Christian Community Churches of Australia is seen by some as partly a reaction to public confusion between their own movement and the Exclusives.
According to the Evangelical publication, Operation World, there were 320 Brethren congregations in Australia with 46,176 affiliates in 2010.〔
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