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  2. United Methodist Church - Wikipedia

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    The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a worldwide mainline Protestant [8] denomination based in the United States, and a major part of Methodism.In the 19th century, its main predecessor, the Methodist Episcopal Church, was a leader in evangelicalism.

  3. Confession of Faith (United Methodist) - Wikipedia

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    The United Methodist Church adopted the Confession of Faith in 1968 when the Methodist Church merged with the Evangelical United Brethren Church to form the United Methodist Church. The Confession of Faith covers much of the same ground as the Articles of Religion, but it is shorter and the language is more contemporary.

  4. Methodism - Wikipedia

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    The first Protestant worship service was conducted on 28 August 1898 by an American military chaplain named George C. Stull. Stull was an ordained Methodist minister from the Montana Annual Conference of The Methodist Episcopal Church (later part of the United Methodist Church after 1968). [250]

  5. United Methodist Church is facing upheaval. These staff are ...

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    About a quarter of the denomination's churches left, or disaffiliated, from the United Methodist Church between 2019-2023 following disagreements over theology and church policy, including dealing ...

  6. The United Methodist Church Split, Explained - AOL

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    The United Methodist Church (UMC) has historically regarded itself as a “big tent” denomination. But as member churches across the United States vote to disaffiliate from the UMC, the ...

  7. A New Methodist Denomination Emerges - AOL

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    United Methodism’s global nature, with millions of church members in Africa, long kept it from liberalizing on sexuality issues, as other Mainline Protestant denominations did years ago.

  8. Twenty-five Articles - Wikipedia

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    The resulting Twenty-five Articles were adopted at the Christmas Conference of 1784, [2] and are found in the Books of Discipline of Methodist Churches, such as Chapter I of the Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and paragraph 103 of the United Methodist Church Book of Discipline. [3]

  9. Book of Discipline - Wikipedia

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    A Book of Discipline (or in its shortened form Discipline) [1] is a book detailing the beliefs, standards, doctrines, canon law, and polity of a particular Christian denomination. [2] [3] They are often re-written by the governing body of the church concerned due to changes in society and in the denomination itself. [4]