What is ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians? 

No Genetically Modified Orthodoxy here!

And best of all; CONSERVATIVE! 👍

@@ReadyToHarvest good one

The enlightenment was far from being a cultural trend. Considering the new testament and Paul's salutations; women are able to minister greatly in the living Body of Yeshua; where men are not in the task enough around the world. There is no female or male in Christ at that point. So it ceases to be a sexual issue. I know nothing much about the denominational variants on this. Others may. God did not make women as a second thought. They are among others thongs the best nurturers in many ways of children and young men; when they are true to their providential task. And self evident. Men are among other things to help provide fir children and women . And all are to serve best by putting Christ first in all things. The churches assimilation of cultural values is another problem. We have to deal with that individually in our lives as well. The first two commandments are fulfilled by faith in Christ alone. No idols in place of or by the side of. Praise God in all things. All this seems again self evident from the scrotures in total and our spiritual expereince and necessities. Let Christ be in control.

Doing exactly what cultural trends ask. Saying you aren’t following cultural trends. Claim biblical basis. No one claimed this was biblical for thousands of years until it became a cultural trend. Hmmm…..

@@Dunning-Kruger-effect 💯💯💯

The Enlightenment was absolutely a cultural trend

You are most welcome! Hopefully you can find a good congregation near year.

some ARP are pretty conservative too.

"Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church" (yes, that's real and no it's not in communion with EO, of course)

Orange Catholic? Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man...

Because they are NOT orthodox, nor are they particularly conservative, merely more so than PCUSA. The OPC would require many changes.

The OPC is significantly different from ECO, such that ECO churches would not want to join OPC and OPC would not want to have them. The OPC hews much, much more closely to the Westminster Confession of Faith, and it is certainly not egalitarian. The more obvious fit to me would be the EPC. I have a pastor friend who led his church to leave the PC(USA) for the EPC right at the time when ECO was formed. I asked him why he thought ECO came into existence, when the churches who formed ECO could have just left for the EPC. He said that one factor (among many) had to do with the fact that some PCUSA Presbyteries would not let a church leave the denomination to go to a denomonation that was not explicitly egalitarian. As the video mentions, the EPC allows for the ordination of women, but does not have a unified stance on the issue, allowing churchse (and presbyteries, iirc) to disagree and refuse to hire female pastors. In taking an explicit and unwaivering egalitarian stance, ECO provided a place where some PCUSA churches could land without having the presbytery block them or sieze their property.

@@slamdancer1720 So then the ECO is just PCA Light?

@@GermanShepherd1983 no...more like PCUSA heavy. Much closer to PCUSA than OPC or PCA. for example, ALL officers in the OPC MUST hold to the Westminster standards, and is complementarian.

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Yes

From the Nicene Creed: *We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.* *We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.* *We look for the resurrection of the dead,* *and the life of the world to come. Amen.* (Some denominations would like to exclude others from the one church over non-credal matters, but this is what we confess nonetheless.)

The church is a like a tree. & some claim to be the original & some from the original claim the original lost its way therefore create a split in the church. The most powerful/rich ones are Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Baptist, Pentecostal & the rest of the church’s are mostly non-denominational or independent. I myself lean on to the poor churches because I find them not hypocritical on textual teachings ish.

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As for the number of Christian denominations, it's often claimed that there are tens of thousands. Joshua once did a video on this. Unfortunately, I forget its title. Anyhow, he showed that the number of denominations claimed to exist is highly exaggerated. One reason is that the same denomination gets counted more than once depending on how many countries it exists in, and other such strange vagaries which greatly expand the numbers claimed.

Same 😢

Oh no! Not equality!

Galations 3:28

So Christian to say people can "cram" their "crap" . Disappointing

@@aaronwalterryse4281 The same apostle refers to prohibition of women speaking in the assembly as well as usurping the authority of men in leadership in the home and in matters of tree church.

@@abeycee7427 Yes it is Christian to deal bluntly with the babbling of fools. Paul said, " I refuse to suffer fools gladly."

@@daveb9342 No wonder people are walking away from Christianity and religion altogether.