Although the Methodist church does not encourage or support divorce, it will perform marriages of people who had divorced another person.

No, Baptists do not have a pope.

He lost his right arm in 1860.

As an infant, you are baptized in your parents' faith. Wh en you are at an age of accountability, usually in the junior high years, you are confirmed in your own faith after a period of study with your pastor or church elders. The act of confirmation signifies that you comprehend the basic philosophy of Christianity and what is expected of you as a practicing Presbyterian.

He needed to know Christ personally.

Methodists don't agree with it, but we love homosexuals anyways and try to give them support

Even though there aren't much around now,but in the past the Methodist Episcopal south was different from the methodist episcopal because the methodist episcopal south believed in owning slaves.

The Methodist Church started out in middle part of the 18th century in England.

They were a small group of religious scholars that studied scripture and theology in a very methodical way. They were accussed of being as such and the term "Methodist" stuck. This happened at Oxford University. The interesting thing to remember is that the founder of this movement, was the Rev John Wesley, who was a high church Anglican priest of the Church of England. His brother Charles was also as was his father. It was never his intention to break away from the Church of England and urged his followers to remain loyal to the established church. Despite this, the Church of England was hostile towards the Wesley's because of their preaching in the open and not inside the church. People from all over England, but especially Cornwall and Wales, became strongholds for the Methodist societies that were emerging. John Wesley sailed to the American colonies and landed in Georgia to preach to the native Indians and others. He also travelled to Philadelphia and New York.

George Whitefield was another major figure during this time. They were close friends and he was consecrated a Bishop in the colonies. In time, they developed animosities and had some serious disagreements. The Revolutionary War and its aftermath, led to the Methodists leaving the Anglican Church-it was more a political than religious decision. Rev Wesley published the Methodist Book of Worship, which was almost identical to the Anglican Book of Common Prayer which he so loved. He also encouraged that Holy Communion be celebrated every week. Most of the Anglican Articles of Religion were incorporated by the Methodists. Both Wesley's would remain staunch supporters of the Church of England despite their support in helping the new church. Unlike the Episcopal Church that was formed after the Revolutionary War and was too rigid and conservative in evangelizing-the Methodists were not as strict and used circuit riders who had little formal education to find converts and establish new churches in all the colonies. This helps to explain why the Methodists are found in all regions of the country and have more parishes than any other denomination-although they had to close many churches in the last 20 years and experienced a huge decline in membership.

But that was not the case after the war. The Methodists would until the middle half of the last century, be evangelical and its services and churches were informal with little emphasis on sacraments or its historical roots. All that changed in the last 65 years when the United Methodist Church began to act more like the other liberal mainline churches and less evangelical. The churches began to take on the style of Episcopal and Lutheran churches and the worship services became much more traditional and formal with pastors wearing vestments and celebrating Holy Communion more frequently. The UMC have entered into full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in 2008 and will with the Episcopal Church in 2012. The British Methodist Church and the Church of England have recently announced that both traditions will merge either this year or next.

Leontyne Price

no, celibate religious persons ( monks, unmarried priests, and as you mentioned Nuns, are rare-to-non-existant in most Protestant denominations. Luther was not only opposed to celibacy ( he married an ex-Nun- Katharine Von Bora)- but also chauvinistic as , well a Foreign Legionaire would be- he followed the Paulist track that women should not take any active role in the management of the church- apart from well, child care, singing hymns, etc. This ruled out female religious as Catholics know them. ( it is rare to find a Lutheran church named after a female saint). There are nuns and monks- which evolve into celibate priests- in the Anglo-Catholic branch of Episcopal Church, in the US, among the men- they are known as the Cowley Fathers. In a Cowley monastery rectory- there are eight breviary officers who are in charge. These men have specific responsibilities. There are also Episcopal Nuns- again rare. Not any in Lutheranism or the Baptist faith. There are Deaconesses who are involved in charitable deeds- such as nursing, in Lutheran Homes and Hospitals for example, but they are categorically NOT NUNS.

The Puritans tried to reform the Church of England along Calvinist lines and ended up separating into Congregational, Presbyterian and Baptist denominations. Without the strong Puritan influence, the Anglican churches drifted toward cold rationalism. John Wesley (1703 -1791) was the man raised up by God to awaken the spiritual life of England. Wesley was determined to revive the evangelical spirit within the Church of England. Ultimately, Wesley became the founder for the emotional movement of his time, which was called as Methodism.

One great result of the revival was the new Church, the Methodist Church. Wesley did not desire this. He loved the Church of England, and wished that the people who became Christians under his preaching and that of his fellow workers could be taken into it. But the new Church was forced upon him. Wesley theology was called "Arminianism of the heart" - an Arminianism combined with Pietism and burning with revival fire. Methodism and Wesley left an indelible impression on North American evangelical theology and for the rest of the denominations of the world.

A still greater result of the revival was a spiritual awakening of England, affecting the nation widely and deeply. Thousands of people who had been living in practical heathenism, because of the neglect of the Church of England, were gathered into the Methodist societies.

- By S. A. Devasahayam, can be contacted at dsahayam@sify.com

Yes, it is the Sabbath after all. :D

r u asking how we feel about it or what we believe happenes?

The Methodist version is: : Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name : Thy kingdom come,Thy will be done, on earth as in heaven. : Give us this day our daily bread. : And forgive us our trespasses, : As we forgive those who trespass against us. : And lead us not into temptation, : But deliver us from evil. : For thine is the kingdom, : and the power, and the glory, : for ever and ever. Amen.

In 1751 he married Mrs. Vazeille, the widow of a London merchant. Wesley took care that her fortune should be settled on herself and children, and it was agreed that he should not preach one sermon or travel one mile less than before his marriage. During the first four years Mrs. Wesley accompanied her husband on many of his journeys, but she naturally grew discontented with the discomforts of this unsettled life, and when she remained at home she became possessed of such an absurd jealousy of her husband that she almost became a monomaniac. Charles Wesley early discovered her to be of an angry and bitter spirit, and in 1753 wrote to his own amiable wife: "I called, two minutes before preaching, on Mrs. Wesley at the Foundry, and in all that time had not one quarrel." He begs his wife to be courteous without trusting her. She acted with such unreasonable malice that it is charitable to accept the suggestion that she was at times mentally unsound. She seized her husband's papers, interpolated his letters, and then gave them into the hands of his enemies or published them in the newspapers. She shut up Charles Wesley with her husband in a room, and told them of their faults with much detail and violence. Charles called her his "best friend," for this service, but began to recite Latin poetry and persisted until she at last set her prisoners free. He had tried this device with good effect on his voyage from Georgia. Sometimes Mrs. Wesley drove a hundred miles to see who was with her husband in his carriage. John Hampson, one of Wesley's preachers, witnessed her in one of her fits of fury, and said, "More than once she laid violent hands upon him, and tore those venerable locks which had suffered sufficiently from the ravages of time." She often left him, but returned again in answer to his entrearies. In 1771 he writes: "For what cause I know not, my wife set out for Newcastle, purposing 'never to return.' Non eam reliqui ; non dimisi; non revocabo." (I did not forsake her; I did not dismiss her; I shall not recall her.)

John Wesley's mother was Susannah. She was very strict and taught her children at home. There are many aspects of the United Methodist Church that can be traced back to the way Susannah raised John and his siblings.

Yes. As a christian denomination, they adhere to the same creeds as the rest of the Christian Church. These include the Nicene Creed, the Apostles' Creed and the Athanasian Creed that focusses on the belief in a Trinitarian God.

African Methodist Episcopal--a branch of Methodism that broke off when black members were discriminated against by white members.

The first American Methodist pastor was Francis Asbury

No. Mary was a widow past childbearing age when she married John Wesley. Mary had four children from a previous marriage (to Mr. Vazeille). John Wesley is not known to ever have had any children.

The term 'free' goes back to a split between groups within the Methodist church. Some felt the Methodists were becoming too institutionalized, like other churches where a family 'purchased' a pew for their family. 'The pews should be 'free' to all' some argued, and this term was used by the group that split off from the main body.

The religious denominations in the Bahamas include Anglican, Assembly of God, Ba'hai Faith, Baptist, Bretheren, Christian & Missionary Alliance, Christian Science, Church of God of Prophecy, Greek Orthodox, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jewish, Latter Day Saints (Mormon) Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, Seventh Day Adventist and other smaller denominations.

Theologically, there are many similarities between Lutheran and Methodist beliefs. Both are strongly Bible-based denominations, with strong Bible teaching based on issues of faith rather than "religious experiences", which some denominations may focus upon. Differences are going to arise more in the details and celebration of Holy Communion.