The influence of the African American Christian experience on the Evangelical Covenant Church

Robert L Owens

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The influence of the African American Christian experience on the Evangelical Covenant Church

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Robert L Owens. The Influence of the African American Christian Experience On the Evangelical Covenant Church. Columbia Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/974c351c-f0fd-4e3a-a200-822ddd356be1.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

R. L. Owens. The influence of the African American Christian experience on the Evangelical Covenant Church. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/974c351c-f0fd-4e3a-a200-822ddd356be1

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Robert L Owens. The Influence of the African American Christian Experience On the Evangelical Covenant Church. Columbia Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/974c351c-f0fd-4e3a-a200-822ddd356be1.

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Robert L Owens

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Religious surveys

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Abstract

This paper seeks to determine the extent to which the African American Christian experience has influenced the ministry of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC). To measure the African Americans' influence in the Evangelical Covenant Church in the areas of worship, preaching, and social action, three survey instruments were designed and implemented. The worship survey was conducted among fifteen worship leaders. This group was chosen because they represent a cross-section of the denomination at large. The preaching survey was distributed to twenty-eight covenant preachers. This group was chosen based on this writer's knowledge of their ministry setting. The social action survey was designed to assess the African American social action influence. This survey was administered to six associate superintendents, three directors of church planting, and four superintendents, representing the eleven conference regions that comprise the Evangelical Covenant Church. This group was chosen because these individuals overseer more than 760 churches in the United States and Canada. This study will show how that The African American Christian influence is responsible for an expanding array of ministries at larger gatherings of the ECC and in local congregations. The data findings of this report supports the assumption that preaching in local congregations has a social focus, and that many congregations are moving toward a new consciousness that lives out their faith in word and practice.

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