Talk:Evangelical Covenant Church
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I'm wondering what the evangelical covenant church's theolgy of the eucharist is. In memory of Christ (only)? Real presence? How? Body and Blood of Christ?
Beth
I think they're Lutheran, which means that they hold neither to Catholic nor Reformed understandings of the Eucharist. They definitely would reject transubstantiation. --One Salient Oversight 06:31, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Clarified church's position on abortion, added material on the "four distinctives" of the Evangelical Covenant Church, repointed Adherents.com link to a current page- however, because adherents.com continually updates its database and doesn't support permalinks by denomination, I'd suggest finding a different source. (also, adherents.com doesn't seem to like terminal slashes, which seemed to upset the link- not wanting to spam up the works too much, I left it be for a more wiki-knowledgable editor to fix)
The Church has no official position on the Eucharist. They take a middle of the road position on contentious issues which is aimed at uniting Christians to bring the gospel to the world.
-robert
Here is a nice, but slow loading PDF dissertation on the history of the denomination. [1] PDF. It is 353 pages long, so I don't have time to incorporate it while at work. GRBerry 19:42, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Deleted reference to Tom (Thom) Hanks as a notable member of Marin Covenant Church as a youth. Tom is not presently a member of Marin Covenant; the "notable" heading is intended to list those currently involved in the ECC. Thom's experience in the ECC youth ministry in the 1970's was actually at Oakland Covenant primarily, just down the hill from where he attended Skyline High School. -steve
