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Our History and Beliefs:

 
History and Doctrine

Our church was founded in 1879 in Brockton by Swedish immigrants who were part of the spiritual awakenings in Protestant Churches in Northern Europe in the late 19^th Century. We moved to our new facility in East Bridgewater in 1980. We are affiliated with the Evangelical Covenant Church, a denomination of 620 churches and 90,000 members. We believe in:

• the Bible as God's authoritative word and our only perfect rule for faith, doctrine, and conduct.
• the necessity of new life in Jesus Christ, found in a personal relationship with Him.
• the church as a fellowship of believers in Christ, His body working together in the world.
• the Christian’s daily dependence on the Holy Spirit.
• the reality of freedom in Christ, which allows for different matters of interpretation, doctrine, and practice within biblical guidelines.

Our Mission Statement

Community Covenant Church's mission is to glorify God, to reach non-believers, and to develop all God's children into mature disciples of Jesus Christ.
 

The Evangelical Covenant Church is a denomination of more than seven hundred churches and 116,000 in the United States and Canada. It was founded by Swedish immigrants in 1885 as a voluntary covenant of churches committed to working together to share the Good News of Jesus Christ. Covenant churches emphasize the Bible’s witness to new life in Jesus Christ expressed in a day to day walk with the Lord.
 

• Evangelical, but not exclusive

• Biblical, but not doctrinaire

• Traditional, but not rigid

• Congregational, but not independent

The Covenant Mission:

We are united by Christ in a holy covenant of churches empowered by the Holy Spirit to obey the Great Commandments and the Great Commission:

• …to love God with all out heart, soul, strength and mind;
• …to love our neighbor as ourselves, and
• …to go into all the world and make disciples.

The Evangelical Covenant Church has its roots in historical Christianity as it emerged in the Protestant Reformation, in the biblical instruction of the Lutheran State Church of Sweden, and in the great spiritual awakenings of the nineteenth century. These three influences have in large measure shaped its development and are to be borne in mind in seeking to understand its distinctive spirit.

The Covenant Church adheres to the affirmation of the Protestant Reformation regarding the Holy Scriptures, the Old and the New Testament, as the Word of God and the only perfect rule for faith, doctrine, and conduct. It has traditionally valued the historic confessions of the Christian church, particularly the Apostles’ Creed. While at the same time it has emphasized the sovereignty of the Word over creedal interpretations. It has especially cherished the pietistic restatement of the doctrine of justification as basic to the dual task of evangelism and Christian nurture, the New Testament emphasis upon personal faith on Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, the reality of a fellowship of believers which recognizes but transcends theological differences, and the belief in baptism and the Lord’s Supper as divinely ordained sacraments of the church. While the denomination has traditionally practiced the baptism of infants, in conformity with its principle of freedom it has also recognized the practice of believer baptism. The principle of personal freedom, so highly esteemed by the Covenant, is to be distinguished from the individualism that disregards the centrality of the Word of God and the mutual responsibilities and disciplines of the spiritual community.

 If you are searching for a closer relationship with God, consider this an invitation

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