Most metropolitan councils were organized on the basis of membership by local congregations. (religion-online.org)
By the end of the decade some major metropolitan councils of churches were all but dismantled. (religion-online.org)
Most metropolitan councils in fact have been essentially conservative, white - dominated, establishment - run organizations that engaged in nothing more radical than sponsorship of the training of clergy in hospital visitation or publication of a hesitant statement on some controversial issue. (religion-online.org)