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New denomination remains a work in progress
Written by Leslie Scanlon, Outlook national reporter   
Monday, 23 January 2012 20:58

ORLANDO, Fla. – While the Fellowship of Presbyterians has launched a new denomination, called the Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians (or ECO for short), some folks still have questions about exactly how things will work.

 
Fellowship's theology document may remain a work in progress
Written by Leslie Scanlon, Outlook national reporter   
Friday, 20 January 2012 18:34

imagesecoORLANDO, Fla. – Two members of a writing team that produced a theology document that's part of the constitution of the new denomination created by the Fellowship of Presbyterians said Jan. 19 that they expect changes to be made in their handiwork in the years to come.

 
A bold church unafraid: Fellowship casts vision
Written by Leslie Scanlon, Outlook national reporter   
Thursday, 19 January 2012 23:50

ORLANDO, Fla. – All through the day on Jan. 19, John Ortberg and others at the Fellowship of Presbyterians Covenanting Conference cast a vision.

It was of a bold church unafraid to take risks; one that makes disciples; one that takes the best of Presbyterian history and tradition and points it in new directions.

 
We expect what we inspect
Written by Leslie Scanlon, Outlook national reporter   
Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:10

ORLANDO – Instead of just requiring congregations to submit annual statistical reports, the Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians would ask for annual narrative reports, as Presbyterian congregations routinely did in the years before 1925.

 
Fellowship of Presbyterians releases new theology and polity documents: Orlando, January 19
Written by Leslie Scanlon, Outlooks National Reporter   
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:16

ORLANDO – The Fellowship of Presbyterians has given a name to its new Reformed body. The new denomination will be known as the Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians.

            John Ortberg, a well-known author and the pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in California, kicked off the second day of the Fellowship’s Covenanting Conference Jan. 19 by preaching at morning worship. As that ended, the Fellowship distributed revised copies of its theology and polity documents – the cornerstones of the new denomination’s constitution.

 
There's no rush to judgment on leaving the PC(USA) by young evangelical pastors or their congregations
Written by Leslie Scanlon, Outlook national reporter   
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 06:03

ORLANDO, Fla. – Most of the young evangelical church leaders attending a Fellowship of Presbyterians event this week are from congregations that either plan to stay in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) or are still deciding whether to leave.

 

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“Why I’m staying … an open letter to my friends in the PC(USA)”

- Friday, 27 January 2012

Evangelical Tod Bolsinger, chair of the Mid-Councils Commission shared his heart in anticipation of the Fellowship of Presbyterians conference, held recently in Orlando, Fla. “Like many who will gather in Orlando, I share many concerns about the state of our denomination. But,

Kashmir Shariah court order targets Christians

Anto Akkara - Friday, 27 January 2012

(ENInews) Churches in India have decried the verdict of an Islamic court in Kashmir that ordered the expulsion of Christians, including a Protestant pastor and a Dutch Catholic missionary, and recommended government control of Christian schools.

North Korean Christian leader dies

Hisashi Yukimoto - Friday, 27 January 2012

(ENInews) North Korean Christian leader the Rev. Kang Young-sup, 80, who worked for the reunification of North and South Korea, died Jan. 21, according to Chosen Tongshin Sa, a North Korean news agency.

Cairo congregation ministered to Tahrir Square protesters

ENI news Staff - Friday, 27 January 2012

(ENInews) As Egyptians gathered this week in Cairo's Tahrir Square to mark the first anniversary of the "Egyptian Revolution," nearby Jasr El Dobara Church continued to be a bridge-builder between communities of faith.

Being disciple-makers and students go hand in hand

Bethany Furkin - Friday, 27 January 2012

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (PNS) “Learning is perhaps an accumulation of moments that form us,” the Rev. Pam Driesell told the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Disciple-Making Church Conference here Jan. 17.

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Here I stand; I can do no other.” I’ve heard those words more times than I can recall — mostly from pastors who were drawing a line in the sand and separating themselves either from a rival faction in the congregation or from their denomination of affiliation or both. However, many of those pastors ultimately sounded a different refrain: “If only I’d known what would have resulted, I never would have started this.”

 

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