ECO: A Covenant Order Of Evangelical Presbyterians

Ordination Question #3(for elders, deacons and pastors)

Will you receive, adopt, and be bound by the Essential Tenets of ECO as a reliable exposition of what Scripture teaches us to do and to believe, and will you be guided by them in your life and ministry?

ECO Essential Tenets

1. The Bible is God’s authoritative word

2. The Trinity: One God, Three Persons

3. The Incarnation: Jesus is God in flesh

4. Jesus is God’s sole means of salvation

5. Saving Faith is through God’s initiative

6. The Church is God’s covenant community

7. Every part of life is to show our love for God

8. Live in prayerful obedience to God’s word

Mark 2:18-22

18 Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and asked Jesus, “How is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?”

Mark 2:18-22

19 Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him with them. 20 But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast.

Mark 2:18-22

21 “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse. 

Mark 2:18-22

22 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.”

Jesus, Luke 7:33-35

33 “For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ 34 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ 35 But wisdom is proved right by all her children.”

Matthew 13:52

Jesus said to them,

“Therefore every teacher of the law who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.”