The Evangelical Covenant Church emerged from small groups of believers (conventicles) that met to cultivate warm personal piety. It has also-on a customary rather than mandatory basis-sustained observance of the church year, which keeps the Christian story alive and vivid in the community.
The Evangelical Covenant Church originated in the nineteenth-century spiritual renewal movements within the Lutheran church of Sweden. Earlier influences that contributed to this renewal were Pietism and...
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