The Mission Covenant Church of Sweden has a tradition of ecumenism and freedom, which makes it difficult to categorize theologically. It has a heritage from Luther, but does not affirm Lutheran creeds.
While not exactly the same, the "Mission Covenant Church of Sweden" is essentially the origin of the "Evangelical Covenant Church" in the United States, meaning that Swedish immigrants who were part of the Mission Covenant movement formed the basis of the Evangelical Covenant Church denomination when they came to America; so, they are closely related and share a similar theological foundation.
Yes, Minnehaha Academy is a ministry of the Northwest Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC).
The Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) is an evangelical denomination with Pietist Lutheran roots. The denomination has 129,015 members in 878 congregations and an average worship attendance of 219,000 people in the United States and Canada with ministries on five continents.
A smaller percentage known as the Free Friends remained independent and became the Swedish Evangelical Free Church, now part of the Evangelical Free Church of America.
A smaller percentage known as the Free Friends remained independent and became the Swedish Evangelical Free Church, now part of the Evangelical Free Church of America.
In 1989, JPUSA joined the Evangelical Covenant Church as a member congregation, and currently has eight pastors credentialed with the ECC.
weird!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_People_USA
A lawsuit was filed in January 2014 against JPUSA and its parent denomination, the Evangelical Covenant Church, claiming that children were sexually abused by members of JPUSA and its leadership covered it up for years.[11] No Place to Call Home is a documentary that shares the stories of former children of JPUSA members who allegedly were sexually abused.[12
https://jesuspeoplechicago.org/our-denomination
Expose doc on Jesus People commune abuse
"that collective draws you to it. YOu don't feel as important as you do when you're part of that collective....it's affected me in bad ways, in negative ways, in terms of, even that one time, even though that only happened once, even today it's hard for me to have a relationship with a man, that I don't bring some type of sexual component to it. It's 2nd nature to me, it's like the language that I speak and it's dysfunctional... that's just the reality of what I live with....It internalizes it...it manifests it."
Jaime....victim of Jesus People Commune cult...
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