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The acronym "ECO" came from its original denominational name, which was the Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians. [10] Because the nickname stuck, the denomination kept it and repurposed it to represent ECO's three-fold commitment to make disciples of Jesus Christ (Evangelical), connect leaders through accountable relationships and encourage collaboration (Covenant), and commit to a ...
The actual divorce rate is probably somewhat higher due to civil divorces obtained without an accompanying ecclesiastical divorce. [35] Divorced individuals are usually allowed to remarry though there is usually imposed on them a penance by their bishop and the services for the second marriage, in this case, are more penitential than joyful.
The EPC began as a result of prayer meetings in 1980 and 1981 by pastors and elders increasingly alienated by liberalism in the "northern" branch of Presbyterianism (the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., a predecessor of the Presbyterian Church (USA)). Two cases served as important catalysts in their separation: the Kenyon Case of 1975 ...
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Sovereign Grace Churches was known as "People of Destiny International" until 1998. [36] British restorationist leader Terry Virgo says that Larry Tomczak and C. J. Mahaney, leaders at the time, had become "increasingly uncomfortable" with the "People of Destiny International" name, and it became "PDI Ministries". [37]
The Conservative Congregational Christian Conference is a Congregationalist denomination in the United States. [3] It is the most conservative and oldest Congregationalist denomination in America following the dissolution of the Congregational Christian Churches . [ 4 ]
“It’s also that if you have a pastor who says, ‘I’m going to uphold this in my church, but I think other churches can be free to do that,’ they would be in violation of that perspective.”
“People go to church on Sunday, they sing a few songs, they listen to an hour-long sermon that seems more like a TED talk, and then they go home, and they just go on with their lives.”