Evangelical Covenant Churches

Though heir to the liturgical tradition of pietistic Lutheranism, the Evangelical Covenant Church adapted to a revivalist milieu in America with its focus on Scandinavian immigrants as the target group for evangelistic and pastoral outreach. A new sense of mission, however, pervades the denomination, creating expanded horizons both for worship and for ministry to the unchurched.

With its roots in the Lutheran state church of Sweden and the pietistic renewal in the mid-nineteenth century, the...

 

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