A Protestant tradition that confesses the Trinity and the deity of Christ. Many of its members believe the Gospel, and we receive them as brethren in Christ. But on baptism, church order, and other parts of the whole counsel of God its teaching departs from Scripture, and that affects whether we can serve together in church practice.
Where It Came From
The Wesleyan Methodist Connection formed in 1843 when abolitionist Methodists left the Methodist Episcopal Church over slavery. The nineteenth-century Holiness movement then gave rise to further bodies, including the Free Methodist Church (1860) and the Church of the Nazarene (1908). The Wesleyan Church took its present form by merger in 1968.
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In Their Own Words
This profile describes the tradition from its own official documents and standard teaching:
- The Discipline of The Wesleyan Church (Articles of Religion)
- Manual of the Church of the Nazarene (Articles of Faith)
- The Book of Discipline of the Free Methodist Church