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The Evangelical Association of Reformed and Congregational Christian Churches is an evangelical protestant denomination in the United States. [3] It began as a fellowship of churches disaffected from the United Church of Christ [ 4 ] due to that denomination's liberal theology. [ 5 ]
The Congregational Christian Churches was a Protestant Christian denomination that operated in the U.S. from 1931 through 1957. On the latter date, most of its churches joined the Evangelical and Reformed Church in a merger to become the United Church of Christ. [1]
E. ECO (denomination) Elim Fellowship; Evangel Church; Evangelical and Reformed Church in Honduras; Evangelical Anglican Church In America; Evangelical Assembly of Presbyterian Churches in America
The church spread to various parts of the United States. In 1894 the Esher-Dubbs dispute occurred and 1/3 of the church left to form the United Evangelical Church. In 1923, most of the disputing congregations returned and the church was renamed the Evangelical Church. The remaining churches became the Evangelical Congregational Church.
The Evangelical Church or Evangelical Association, also known in the late 1700s as the New Methodist Conference and in the early 1800s as the Albright Brethren, was a "body of American Christians chiefly of German descent". [1] It was Wesleyan–Arminian in doctrine and theology, as well as Methodist Episcopal in its form of church government. [2]
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 Evangelical Church of North America (ECNA) is a Wesleyan-Holiness, Protestant Christian denomination headquartered in Clackamas, Oregon.As of 2000, the Church had 12,475 members in 133 local churches. [1]
When the CC national General Council adopted a "Basis of Union" with the E&R Church in 1948, the dissenters organized into two groups: the Committee for the Continuation of Congregational Christian Churches, formed by the pastor of Los Angeles' Congregational Church of the Messiah, Harry R. Butman; and the League to Uphold Congregational ...