What We Believe

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The Evangelical Covenant Church has its roots in historical Christianity as it emerged in the Protestant Reformation, in the biblical instruction of the Lutheran Church of Sweden, and in the great spiritual awakenings of the nineteenth century.

We are an apostolic church. We confess the historic faith of the apostles. We believe in Jesus Christ the Son of God, our Savior and Lord. We accept the Holy Scriptures, the Old and New Testaments, as "the Word of God and the only perfect rule for faith, doctrine, and conduct."

We are a Reformation church. We stand in the mainstream of the sixteenth-century Protestant movement which insisted on justification by grace alone through faith alone.

We are an evangelical church. We were born out of the revival movement that touched all of Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and come to flower for us in nineteenth and twentieth century North America.

Appreciating this classical Christian heritage and hungering for an ever more vital experience of new life in Chirst, Covenanters affirm a number of evangelical emphases. Among these are:

The centrality of the Scriptures
The necessity of the new birth
The Church as a fellowship of believers
The ministry of the Holy Spirit
The reality of freedom in Chirst

Affirmations like these are not to be taken as creedal statements. They are rather to be understood as true and valid descriptions of what Covenanters believe and cherish as they continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever"
(Revalation 11:15)

A fuller exposition of these principles is available in the Covenant Publications booklet Covenant Affirmations. www.covchurch.org