Evangelical Covenant Churches

Source: The Complete Library of Christian Worship, Robert E. Webber, General Editor

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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