{"id":196,"date":"2019-08-12T04:10:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T04:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/?page_id=196"},"modified":"2024-04-11T02:07:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T02:07:13","slug":"about-the-ecc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/who-we-are\/about-the-ecc\/","title":{"rendered":"About the ECC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\"  style='background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;'><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row \"><div  class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion_builder_column_1_1 fusion-builder-column-1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last 1_1\"  style='margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\" style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;\"   data-bg-url=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-text\"><p>The Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) is a rapidly growing multiethnic denomination in the United States and Canada with ministries on five continents of the world. Founded in 1885 by Swedish immigrants, the ECC values the Bible as the word of God, the gift of God\u2019s grace and ever-deepening spiritual life that comes through a faith with Jesus Christ, the importance of extending God\u2019s love and compassion to a hurting world, and the strength that comes from unity within diversity.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The Evangelical Covenant Church is:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evangelical, but not exclusive<\/li>\n<li>Biblical, but not doctrinaire<\/li>\n<li>Traditional, but not rigid<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Essential Covenant beliefs are summed up in what we call Covenant Affirmations:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Centrality of the word of God<\/li>\n<li>Necessity of the new birth<\/li>\n<li>Commitment to the whole mission of the Church<\/li>\n<li>Church as a fellowship of believers<\/li>\n<li>Conscious dependence on the Holy Spirit<\/li>\n<li>Reality of freedom in Christ<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interested in learning about the Covenant Affirmations? <a href=\"https:\/\/covchurch.org\/resources\/covenant-affirmations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Learn more<\/strong>&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions\/1395"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}