As followers of Jesus, we believe:

God is the creator of the universe.

Christ is the incarnation of God on earth-fully human and fully God.

The Holy Spirit is the presence of God in the world and in the believer.

The Trinity is God as three persons--Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

The Church is a universal company of Christ's followers.

The forgiveness of sin is made possible by the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.

Life everlasting and the resurrection of the body is ours because Jesus rose from the dead on the third day.

The Bible is the inspired Word of God.

As Protestants, we believe:

In Justification by Faith

We are justified, which means we are brought into a right relationship with God through grace.  This doesn't happen by our own effort but by the death of Jesus Christ on the cross.  Jesus took sin upon himself and became the full and final sacrifice for the sins of the world.

In the Authority of Scripture

Scripture is the written revelation of God and always points through the Holy Spirit to the living revelation of God in Christ.  The purpose of Scripture is to bring persons to salvation and guide them in living a life of faith.

In the Affirmation of the Majesty, Holiness and Providence of God

God is the one cho creates, sustains, rules, and redeems the world in his sovereign righteousness and love.

As Methodists, we emphasize:

Common Questions

We're often asked what Methodists believe about Heaven, hell, salvation, and marriage.  Here's a quick summary of our beliefs on several key topics.

Our belief is best summed up by Michael Bird’s summary of the Apostles’ Creed*

The story of our faith, as the Apostles’ Creed teaches us, is this: we believe in God, the Father Almighty, from whom the Son is eternally begotten and from whom the Spirit proceeds, one God in three persons. God the Father, with the Son and the Spirit acting like his hands, is the creator of heaven and earth. Humanity was created to rule over God’s creation but fell into transgression and corruption. God’s saving plan and promise was to rescue this world, and this rescue began with the call of Abraham and with his covenant with Israel, through whom the promised deliverer would come. It is in the midst of Israel that Jesus was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. His mission was to bring Israel’s story to its climax and to dethrone the evil that tyrannized the world. His gospel of the kingdom drew together the nucleus of a renewed Israel among his followers, who would carry God’s purposes forward to the ends of the Earth. After Jesus came to Jerusalem for one fateful visit, he suffered under the injustice of Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. Jesus’s death was an atonement for sins, his resurrection on the third day was the start of the new creation, and his ascension into heaven marked the beginning of a new divine order over the world. The church now has the duty of living in the power of the Holy Spirit to declare the forgiveness of sins and the restoration of all things. We do this until the glorious day when Jesus returns from heaven to put the world to rights, to judge the living and the dead, to rescue his people, and to bring them into the new heaven and new earth. The goal of our hope is not a disembodied bliss in heaven but rather the resurrection of the body and life everlasting in God’s new world. This is the Christian story, the church’s story, the story we live by, the story which gets our “amen”. This is the story we sing about and proclaim until such a time when “God’s dwelling place is now among people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God” (Rev 21:3).

Michael F. Bird, What Christians Ought To Believe: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine Through The Apostles’ Creed, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic, 2016), 219-220.