The council's motto is Jude 3, "Earnestly contending for the Faith".
ACCC was founded in 1941 under the leadership of Carl McIntire.
Agreement with the purposes and doctrinal statement are required and membership is specifically denied to those who have affiliations with the World Council of Churches (WCC) or any of its affiliates, such as the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. (NCC), the World Evangelical Fellowship (WEF) or any of its affiliates, such as the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), the modern Charismatic Movement, or the Ecumenical Movement...The ACCC has remained small in comparison to the National Association of Evangelicals and the National Council of Churches.
Dan Greenfield currently serves as Executive Secretary.
In July 2007, the leadership of the ACCC issued a statement criticizing a recent declaration by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the meaning of the phrase subsistit in which re-emphasized the role of the Catholic Church as the subsisting Church of Christ.