Halfway Covenant

(A.D. 1662) Puritan Congregationalist churches in 1662 modified their policy of only allowing baptized individuals who could adequately demonstrate that they were among those God had elected to save to be members of their church so that the baptized children of these members were allowed to be half-way members without demonstrating their personal conversionThis term is derived from the Latin word for “turning,” and is a theological term that refers to one turning his will from evil to good and is gen.... Churcha term translated from the Greek word “Ecclesia” which means an assembly called together and is sometime translated as a congregation. A church is... membership at the time was basically equivalent to citizenship in the civil community.