ECO Information for the day - This first generation of Christians was almost entirely Jewish. As Jesus sent His disciples to all the tribes of the world, He insisted that His gospel was for non-Jewish people, called Gentiles, as well. This union of Jew and Gentile in the name of Jesus their king was not easily accomplished. Many challenging questions arose. Leaders in the church gathered in Jerusalem to come to definitive conclusions about these issues. Since that time the church has gathered together to answer profound questions and challenges of their own time, and it has done so in different ways. In the Confessional Standards of ECO you will find documents from the second, fourth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and twentieth centuries. Each of these documents were written to different people and address very different situations, but all instruct the church in the right expression of faith.

On the first Sunday of each month, in our services, as a uniting factor of our beliefs, we recite The Apostles Creed, which is one of the Confessional Standards of ECO.

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, And in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord;

Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate,

was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead;

He ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty;

from where He shall come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy universal church; the communion of saints;

the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.