But whether explicitly or by implication, the methodist distinction between status laxus, status strictus, and status mixtus is always present. |
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He arrived in Whitby at a time when rural Methodist chapels were closing one by one and believers were few and far between. |
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He and Carolyn are also local preachers at Kingston Methodist Church and have close ties with many voluntary organisations. |
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Such positions were available to Methodist women only if they went abroad, as missionaries. |
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The controversy originated through the incursion of Arminian preachers into the Calvinistic Methodist churches of 18th century Wales. |
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Thus, the New Jersey Methodist Conference of 1870 lashed out with their deepest feelings against this Romish obstructionism. |
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There were three or four others, Methodistic in doctrine and discipline, who were recognized as eligible for the Ecumenical Methodist Conference. |
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My mother shuffled us around, as kids, to various Southern Baptist and Methodist churches, with little or no sustained involvement. |
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Villagers are raising funds to replace the ageing structure, once a Methodist chapel in Sutton-on-Derwent. |
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When faith and discipline are seen as the essential ingredients of Methodist piety, there is no mystery about the twentieth century collapse. |
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He made frequent diversions to towns and villages along the way, but the three cities became the great centres of Methodist influence. |
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But Methodist rules forbid the use of fermented grape juice while Anglican church law requires the use of fermented wine. |
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The first was held at the weekly coffee morning in the Methodist Church and he followed that with an evening surgery on Monday night. |
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Stagecoach will mount a Christmas show of music, variety, poetry and comedy in Trinity Methodist Church in the week before Christmas. |
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Jeffery soloed with the Plano Symphony Orchestra and the Southern Methodist University Meadows Symphony Orchestra. |
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The grounds are pocked with small lava pits, which are used to cook poultry and sides of beef donated by Methodist church groups. |
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It meant he travelled around all the different Methodist chapels, constantly meeting and working with people. |
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She is a United Methodist laywoman and developmental psychologist who specializes in working with ethnic families. |
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I attended a holy union two years ago that was facilitated by two United Methodist laywomen. |
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The temperance advocates got strong support from the Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist and Anglican churches. |
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Ten concessionary exempt permits will also be given to the Methodist Church on Hartley Street. |
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Dorothea Dix was born in Hampden, Maine, the daughter of an alcoholic Methodist preacher who was the black sheep of a wealthy merchant family. |
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My grandfather was a Free Methodist and later Nazarene pastor and spent time visiting Spiritwood. |
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And earlier this month New Road Methodist Chapel in Heys Lane, Blackburn, fell victim to vandals who smashed stained glass windows. |
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After a few weeks of attending Methodist, Baptist, and Lutheran churches, her parents finally decided their new denomination was Presbyterian. |
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The simple gravestone at Yeadon Methodist Cemetery could easily go unnoticed. |
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Ten years later, he was asked by a member of his United Methodist church to transport the churchgoer's son to Tranquility Bay in Jamaica. |
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We began with prayer led by Graham Jones, the Methodist chaplain, and the sharing of bread and wine. |
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In that time he's been a martial arts instructor, a financial advisor, pastored a Wesleyan Methodist church and run a radio show. |
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And the century-old Rodbourne Methodist Church is also unlisted and is currently facing demolition to make way for a car park. |
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He was raised a Methodist but began to question his faith after seeing so many die in the Korean war. |
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He was baptized in a Methodist church at age 14, but soon drifted into agnosticism. |
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I have been a Methodist local preacher for 45 years and an Anglican reader for six. |
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The odd pheasant springs hazardously from behind a dry stone wall and the occasional chapel marks this out as Methodist country. |
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Andrew's parents were Methodist missionaries in India, but although a religious man he declared at the age of 3 that he wanted to be a doctor. |
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The Anglican and Methodist churches have signed a covenant intended to heal their 200-year rift and pave the way to reunification. |
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Mr Finch said the scheme would also cut off the vicarage from the Methodist church in Stockbridge Road, which runs a joint Sunday school. |
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Trajkovski is a lawyer and a licensed local preacher of the Methodist Church. |
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This hymn has traditionally been the first hymn in Methodist hymnals since the time of Wesley. |
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She established the Methodist mission hospital at Ikkadu near Madras, where she also served as a district magistrate. |
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The Methodist Church has supported ecumenical efforts from its earliest beginnings. |
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The plans were lodged by Braintree Methodist Church on the open land, which is enclosed by fencing and advertisement hoardings. |
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The Regent Singers will be in concert at Stricklandgate Methodist Church on Friday. |
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He and his wife are also local preachers at Kingston Methodist Church and have close ties with many voluntary organisations. |
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The song was sung in public in 1899 at the ordination of Reverend Boweni, a Shangaan Methodist minister. |
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The Mission was started as an independent non-sectarian project by two members of the Centenary Methodist Chapel. |
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In other areas of the South, Methodist women heeded the national Church's call for racial reconciliation. |
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Worshippers at a Methodist chapel said their final goodbyes to the building at a packed closing service. |
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Several examples provide illustration about how Methodist women recruited their husbands to the church. |
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Both services will take place at Melbourne Road Methodist Church in Deane on Sunday. |
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But the Oreo cookies in the photograph were actually sent by Operation Oreo, a project of Alpharetta Methodist Church in Georgia. |
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Petts Wood Methodist Men's Group is getting in tune for a sing song. |
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As well as being a prominent sheep farmer, Mr Dunn was also an auctioneer, and for more than 70 years as Methodist local preacher, visiting chapels throughout the county. |
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In recognition of his dedicated service to the church, Rex was awarded a certificate during a celebration service at St John's Methodist Church, in Settle. |
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The New Eltham Methodist Church Players take to the boards for their 33rd pantomime in January with some cast members appearing for the 33rd time. |
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Dr. William Lewis Corporon and his grandson, 14-year-old Reat Griffin Underwood were both members of a local Methodist church. |
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Prior was brought up as a Methodist, but while he was a student he came to consider Methodistic theology too unsystematic, and he became a Presbyterian. |
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Five members of Billericay Methodist Church had an unforgettable experience and a taste of African hospitality when they visited Mombasa in Kenya. |
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Exactly 100 years ago this week, Wales was in the midst of a fervent religious revival led by a young Methodist, stoking fanatical excitement and emotional excesses. |
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Peake also made reference to the existence of the National Lotteries Control Board on Duke Street, which lay in close proximity to the Methodist Church just across the road. |
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The group originally met to practise in the Methodist Church. |
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Julie Tucker-Trainum was a Methodist minister but eventually left the church when she came out. |
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That side is volunteering extensively in his hometown of Flint, and recently, pastoring charity United Methodist Church. |
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He was thrilled when I told him I was planning to become a Methodist minister and that our daughter, Sarah, was training to become a local preacher. |
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The census also noted a reverse in the long-term decline in the Church of Ireland, Presbyterian and Methodist faiths, with sizeable increases witnesses across the board. |
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Shuai spent Christmas on the maternity ward at Methodist hospital in Indianapolis. |
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He travelled with a relative, an 80-year-old German-speaking Methodist minister whose own antecedents had come from the house which Mr Bovenizer still occupies. |
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Studying on a scholarship from an American church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, he stayed to work at the college as a registrar and teacher. |
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A similar struggle is under way in the Lutheran, Presbyterian and Methodist denominations. |
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After selecting a tree, many of their weekend customers head across the road to the basement of the Salem Grove Methodist Church for hot drinks, baked goods, and craft items. |
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This is what transformed Cornwall and peppered it with Methodist chapels during the Evangelical Revival and in the first half of the 19th century. |
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For a while, she fell into a depression and abandoned the churchgoing Methodist tradition in which she was reared. |
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One of the first, Songs of Zion was published by the United Methodist Church and contains a history of black music in addition to hymns, spirituals and gospel songs. |
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Methodist minister the Rev Ruth Parry said church members were elated that the planning wrangle, which had been rumbling on for many years, was finally over. |
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The last named has been adopted by the Lutheran, Reformed tradition, and Methodist Churches that had previously developed a lectionary of their own. |
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It was built as a Methodist chapel in 1910, became a convalescence hospital during the First World War, and was later partly used as a billiard hall. |
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The new copy-reader here mentioned was C.C. Foss, a cherubic little fellow who was also a Methodist preacher. |
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I married the daughter of a former Methodist minister and spent the past year gallivanting through 52 different churches. |
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There are currently around 11 Methodist churches in the Keighley circuit. |
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A Methodist revival spread in the British West Indies due to the work of British missionaries. |
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There are smaller Methodist denominations that have seceded from the parent church. |
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Baxter was a Methodist and had heard of the work of the Gilberts and their need for a new preacher. |
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He began preaching and meeting with the Methodist leaders, and within a year the Methodist community had grown to 600 persons. |
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By 1783, the first Methodist chapel was built in Antigua, with John Baxter as the local preacher, its wooden structure seating some 2,000 people. |
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He was later freed and admitted to the Methodist Ministry to serve in Antigua and Jamaica. |
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In 1893 missionaries of the Primitive Methodist Church arrived from Fernando Po, an island off the southern coast of Nigeria. |
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From there the Methodist Church spread to other parts of the country, east of the River Niger and also to parts of the north. |
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Both existed independently of each other until 1962 when they constituted the Conference of Methodist Church Nigeria. |
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Today, the Nigerian Methodist Church has a prelate, eight archbishops and 44 bishops. |
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It has fraternal links with the British Methodist and United Methodist churches worldwide. |
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Like the mother church, the Methodist Church in Ghana was established by people of Protestant background. |
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The Methodist Church operates across South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland, with a limited presence in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. |
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Methodism was brought to China in the autumn of 1847 by the Methodist Episcopal Church. |
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The Methodist Church based in Britain sent missionary George Piercy to China. |
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In 1877, Chau was ordained by the Methodist Church, where he pastored for 39 years. |
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In 1947, the Methodist Church in the Republic of China celebrated its centenary. |
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In 1949, however, the Methodist Church moved to Taiwan with the Kuomintang government. |
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Lynch conducted the first Methodist missionary service on 2 March 1817, in a stable. |
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Missionaries from Britain, North America, and Australia founded Methodist churches in many Commonwealth countries. |
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There are also evangelical Protestant churches in the country of the Methodist tradition like the Wesleyan Church of the Philippines, Inc. |
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In 1884, most Canadian Methodists were brought under the umbrella of the Methodist Church, Canada. |
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A few years later the principal of the school created a Methodist university, the first and only Protestant university in Mexico. |
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However, the Methodist Federation did call for a boycott of Japan, which had invaded China and was disrupting missionary activity there. |
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While United Methodist Church in America membership has been declining, associated groups in developing countries are growing rapidly. |
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American Methodist churches are generally organized on a connectional model, related, but not identical to that used in Britain. |
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In addition to the United Methodist Church, there are over 40 other denominations that descend from John Wesley's Methodist movement. |
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There are also independent Methodist churches, many of which are affiliated with the Association of Independent Methodists. |
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The Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia continues to operate independently. |
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There are also other independent Methodist congregations, some of which were established by, or have been impacted by, Tongan immigrants. |
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The Methodist Church is the third largest denomination throughout the Samoan Islands, in both Samoa and American Samoa. |
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In April 2005, bishops in the United Methodist Church approved A Proposal for Interim Eucharistic Sharing. |
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At the 2008 General Conference, the United Methodist Church approved full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. |
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Other clergymen appointed include the Methodist Donald Soper, the Anglican Timothy Beaumont, and some Scottish clerics. |
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In the 2011 census 5,583 identified themselves as Brethren, 10,979 as Methodist, 1,339 as Quaker, 26,224 as Baptist, and 13,229 as Evangelical. |
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At the age of 12, Owen was apprenticed to a tailor, Angel Jones, an Elder with the Calvinistic Methodist Church. |
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The Methodist Convention in 1887 recommended that chapels regard theatrical activity as an immoral practice on a par with gambling. |
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The development of hymn singing in Wales is closely tied with the Welsh Methodist revival of the late 18th century. |
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With Reith's approval, Pitt engaged various orchestras for a BBC concert series in 1924 at the Methodist Central Hall Westminster. |
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In recognition of his work as a lay preacher, the Keir Hardie Methodist Church in London bears his name. |
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In the Greenhills area is a congregation of the Methodist church, whose premises are currently shared by the Seventh Day Adventist church. |
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The main Methodist church is Wrexham Methodist church, built in 1971 on the site of the former Brynyfynnon Chapel on Regent Street. |
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He lent his critical support to the Methodist revival, and was associated with the early leaders. |
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Methodist preachers such as Griffith Jones, William Williams and Howell Harris were heavily influential in the movement. |
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He himself also preached in the open air as later Methodist leaders would do. |
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Methodist leaders met regularly to organise their work and to agree on matters of common interest. |
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The Welsh Methodist revival differed from the Methodist revival in England in that its theology was Calvinist rather than Arminian. |
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The Methodist revival began within the Church of England in Wales and at the beginning remained as a group within it. |
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Raised in a Calvinistic Methodist home, he was a devout child who attended church regularly and memorized scripture at night. |
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Lewis was the son and grandson of prominent Welsh Calvinistic Methodist ministers. |
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He originally followed the Wesleyan form of Methodism but in 1801 he reformed the Methodist service by conducting it outside. |
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In 1739 John Wesley founded the first Methodist chapel, the New Room, in Bristol. |
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Methodist, Quaker and Baptist preachers traveled in the South, appealing to slaveholders to manumit their slaves. |
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Quaker and Methodist ministers particularly urged slaveholders to free their slaves. |
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The Methodist chapel dates from about 1845 and is part of the Isles of Scilly Methodist Circuit. |
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Penzance is home to the Acorn Arts Centre, sited within a former Methodist chapel. |
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Prior to the 1980s Penzance had six Methodist churches, but this number has now been reduced to two, Chapel Street and High Street. |
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There are also Baptist, Methodist, United Reformed and Elim churches in the town. |
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One Sunday it would be an Anglican priest, the next a Dutch Reformed predikant, the next a Methodist minister. |
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Doctor Ira Babcock of Jason Lee's Methodist Mission was elected supreme judge. |
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Methodist clergy are not required to be vested when celebrating the Eucharist. |
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In the United Kingdom, Evangelicals are represented mostly in the Methodist Church, Baptist communities, and among evangelical Anglicans. |
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A part of British modernization, it drew many people to churches, especially Methodist and Baptist ones. |
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In 1930, the Methodist Church of Brazil became independent of the missionary societies and elected its own bishop. |
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As an offshoot of Anglicanism, Methodist churches often use episcopal polity for historical as well as practical reasons, albeit to limited use. |
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The Bishop of London refused to ordain Methodist priests and deacons in the British American colonies. |
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The resulting Articles of Religion remain official United Methodist doctrine. |
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The Book of Discipline contains the laws, rules, policies and guidelines for The United Methodist Church. |
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Within the United Methodist Church only bishops are empowered to consecrate bishops and ordain clergy. |
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In all of these areas, bishops of the United Methodist Church function very much in the historic meaning of the term. |
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According to the Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church, a bishop's responsibilities are. |
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The collegial expression of episcopal leadership in the United Methodist Church is known as the Council of Bishops. |
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Due to such migration, there was rapid growth in the number of Protestant churches, especially Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist. |
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Both slaves and free blacks were welcomed into Methodist and Baptist churches. |
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This idea, further developed by theologians such as John Miley, became one of the prominent views of the atonement in Methodist Arminianism. |
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It also has a Methodist Chapel, a village hall, a post office, and a golf course complete with restaurant. |
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Later services were held in various locations around the area, and in 1801 a Methodist chapel was built along Barton Road. |
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The society, led by George Loveless, a Methodist local preacher, met in the house of Thomas Standfield. |
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The Methodist Church in Hawes was built in 1856 and was part of the Wensleydale Circuit. |
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Services are held nowadays in the Methodist chapel at the other end of the village. |
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On Monday evening members and friends of the Methodist Church enjoyed watching the film The Waterhorse. |
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Both men began preaching the evangelical message to large audiences, becoming leaders of the Welsh Methodist revival. |
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Camp Hamilton is the Methodist campground, a few miles from Salem, where the Methodists were holding services. |
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Adventist, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal and other Protestant confessions arose in the following centuries. |
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The Church of South India was formed in 1947 by the union of Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Congregationalist and Presbyterian churches. |
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In 2006, the World Methodist Council, representing all Methodist denominations, adopted the declaration. |
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After 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations, whose preachers led the movement. |
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Sprung from Methodist and Wesleyan roots, it arose out of meetings at an urban mission on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. |
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On 18 July 2006, delegates to the World Methodist Conference voted unanimously to adopt the Joint Declaration. |
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Other contemporary denominations that contain high church wings include some Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Methodist churches. |
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In the 1960s the Methodist Church of Great Britain made ecumenical overtures to the Church of England, aimed at church unity. |
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It participates in the World Methodist Council, the World Council of Churches and other ecumenical associations. |
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In the 19th century, the Wesleyan Methodist Church experienced many secessions, with the largest of the offshoots being the Primitive Methodists. |
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The main streams of Methodism were reunited in 1932, forming the Methodist Church as it is today. |
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The first Methodist movement outside the Church of England was associated with Howell Harris in Wales. |
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Another branch of the Methodist revival was under the ministry of George Whitefield, resulting in the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion. |
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Methodist preachers were famous for their enthusiastic sermons and often accused of fanaticism. |
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Wesley insisted that Methodists regularly attend their local parish church as well as Methodist meetings. |
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At this point in time a majority of Methodist members were not attending Anglican church services. |
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The radicals formed the Methodist New Connexion, while the original body came to be known as the Wesleyan Methodist Church. |
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Methodist women formed a community that cared for the vulnerable, extending the role of mothering beyond physical care. |
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Methodist Heritage records the Yarm chapel as the oldest in England in continual use. |
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He was active in numerous leadership roles and promoted Methodist Union that came about in 1932 after his death. |
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For example, Methodist group tours were organized, but they ended when it was clear they made little impact. |
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Today, millions belong to Methodist churches, which are present on all populated continents. |
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These and other patterns of worship are contained in the Methodist Worship Book, the most recent Methodist service book. |
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The Methodist Church follows the Revised Common Lectionary, in common with other major denominations in Britain. |
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Methodism is known for its rich musical tradition and Charles Wesley was instrumental in writing much of the hymnody of the Methodist Church. |
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A summary of Methodist doctrine is contained in the Catechism for the Use of the People Called Methodists. |
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The Methodist Church teaches the Arminian concepts of free will, conditional election and sanctifying grace. |
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The Methodist Church acknowledges this revelation as the supreme rule of faith and practice. |
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The Methodist Church supported the campaign to abolish the death penalty in Great Britain and since then has totally opposed its reintroduction. |
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Within the Methodist Church, members have a broad range of views about human sexuality, relationships and the nature and purpose of marriage. |
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Temperance appealed strongly to the Methodist doctrines of sanctification and perfection. |
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In 2005 there were around 3,600 ordained ministers in the Methodist Church. |
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Deacons also belong to a community of deacons in the Methodist diaconal order. |
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The two orders are equal in status, with presbyters and deacons each serving a distinct role in the ministry of the Methodist Church. |
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Methodist presbyters are usually given pastoral charge of several local churches in a circuit. |
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Unlike many other Methodist churches, the British church does not have bishops. |
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Without bishops, the Methodist Church does not subscribe to the idea of an historical episcopate. |
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The Methodist Church has allowed ordination of women as presbyters since 2 July 1974, at the Methodist Conference in Bristol. |
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This sense of being connected makes a difference to how the Methodist Church as a whole is structured. |
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It is the whole body of members of the Methodist Church linked with one particular place of worship. |
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Membership of the Methodist Church is held in a particular local church, or in a local ecumenical partnership. |
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The central governing body of the Connexion is the Methodist Conference which meets in June each year in a different part of the country. |
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The Methodist Conference is the formal authority on all matters of belief and practice. |
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The Methodist Church participates in various ecumenical forums and interdenominational associations. |
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In April 2016 the World Methodist Council opened an Ecumenical Office in Rome, Italy. |
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Methodist leaders and Pope Francis met together to dedicate the new office. |
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In the 1960s, the Methodist Church made ecumenical overtures to the Church of England, aimed at church unity. |
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In February 1963, a report, Conversations between the Church of England and the Methodist Church, was published. |
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As of 2014 and some Methodist churches work with young people in their communities. |
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The Voice of Methodism brought a Chancery Court case against the Methodist Connexion. |
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Andrew's Scots Church, Malta is a joint congregation of the Methodist Church of Great Britain and the Church of Scotland situated in Valletta. |
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Though Wesley had been ordained an Anglican priest, many other Methodist leaders had not received ordination. |
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Wesley laid the foundations of what now constitutes the organisation of the Methodist Church. |
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His chief prose works are a standard publication in seven octavo volumes of the Methodist Book Concern, New York. |
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Notable mission schools include the La Sallian family of schools and those set up by the Marist Brothers and Methodist missionaries. |
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Elizabeth Branwell, who raised the children after the death of their mother, was a Methodist. |
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The first session convened 10 January 1946 in the Methodist Central Hall in London and included representatives of 51 nations. |
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Significant Protestant denominations are the Presbyterian Church and Methodist Church. |
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The second largest denomination is the Methodist Church, whose Isle of Man District is close in numbers to the Anglican diocese. |
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Calvinism developed through the Puritan period, following the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, and within Wales' Methodist movement. |
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Methodism is known for its rich musical tradition, and Charles Wesley was instrumental in writing much of the hymnody of the Methodist Church. |
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Wesley and his assistant preachers organised the new converts into Methodist societies. |
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At the time of Wesley's death there were over 500 Methodist preachers in British colonies and the United States. |
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However the centrality of women's role sharply diminished after 1790 as Methodist churches became more structured and more male dominated. |
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One popular expression of Methodist doctrine is in the hymns of Charles Wesley. |
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Specifically Methodist means, such as the class meetings, provided his chief examples for these prudential means of grace. |
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The historic Methodist understanding of Scripture is based on the superstructure of Wesleyan covenant theology. |
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Today, the primary liturgical books of the United Methodist Church are The United Methodist Hymnal and The United Methodist Book of Worship. |
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During Kingdomtide, Methodist liturgy emphasises charitable work and alleviating the suffering of the poor. |
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In 1956, the World Methodist Council established a permanent headquarters in the United States at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina. |
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The original body founded as a result of Wesley's work was later known as the Wesleyan Methodist Church. |
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The original church became known as the Wesleyan Methodist Church to distinguish it from these bodies. |
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In the 1980s, missionary work of a Methodist church in Agen led to new initiatives in Fleurance and Mont de Marsan. |
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It runs two student homes, two homes for the elderly, the Forray Methodist High School, the Wesley Scouts and the Methodist Library and Archives. |
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A Methodist presence was continued in Russia for 14 years after the Russian Revolution of 1917 through the efforts of Deaconess Anna Eklund. |
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Today, The United Methodist Church in Eurasia has 116 congregations, each with a native pastor. |
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There are currently 48 students enrolled in residential and extension degree programs at the United Methodist Seminary in Moscow. |
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In Tippah County, Union troops used the Rienzi Methodist Church as a camping place. |
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The relationship between the Methodist Church and the chiefs and vanua is always complex and potentially rivalrous. |
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The rock star had planned to marry the singer and belly dancer in Paris but opted for his local Methodist church at the last minute. |
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The Gables Care Home, on Highfield Road, organised a coffee, cake and tea dance yesterday afternoon at Grove Hill Methodist Church Hall. |
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Sunday at First United Methodist Church on instruments that range from the tiny E-flat sopranino to the long contra-alto. |
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She was a longtime member of Wesley United Methodist Church in Worcester and now a member of the Northside United Methodist Church in Brewster. |
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The speaker for the interdenominational event was Naomi Sharp, representing the Methodist Church. |
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But no one discounted it, including Methodist enthusiasts, Mormon supernaturalists, and Transcendentalist intuitionists. |
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Also this week, another locum vicar arrives for a month long stint at St Peter's Anglican church and Methodist lay preacher Karen hopes to become a fully ordained minister. |
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When he lost his job as an iron moulder and was unemployed for 14 months, he used the time to continue his education and also worked as a Methodist lay preacher. |
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The Judicial Council is the highest court in the United Methodist Church. |
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It is a traditional position of the Methodist Church that any disciplined theological work calls for the careful use of reason by which to understand God's action and will. |
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The Methodist Church has used a succession of hymnals and service books. |
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Hughes played a key role in leading Methodists into the Liberal Party coalition, away from the Conservative leanings of previous Methodist leaders. |
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Beside its membership in the Porvoo Communion, Church of Sweden also has declared full communion with the Philippine Independent Church and the United Methodist Church. |
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In light of Wesley's episcopal consecration, the Methodist Church can lay a claim on apostolic succession, as understood in the traditional sense. |
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In 2006 a relation of interim Eucharistic sharing was inaugurated with the United Methodist Church, a step that may ultimately lead to full communion. |
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The second largest are the Methodists, the largest denominations are the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. |
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The series looked particularly at the work of the British Methodist Church in the islands, as seen through the eyes of the local minister, the Revd David Easton. |
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Series 3 and 4 looked particularly at the work of the Methodist Church on the Isles of Scilly, as seen through the eyes of the local minister, the Revd David Easton. |
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As a man of the cloth, one of the best is the Crystal Methodist. |
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Trenear in Hugh Town and is part of the Isles of Scilly Methodist Circuit. |
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Over the decades and with the growth of slavery throughout the South, Baptist and Methodist ministers gradually changed their messages to accommodate the institution. |
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The largest denominations, the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches, split over the slavery issue into regional organizations of the North and South. |
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Jones is often thought of as the forerunner of Methodist ideas in Wales. |
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The appointment of Henry Mills as a musical overseer to the Welsh Methodist congregations in the 1780s saw a drive to improve singing throughout Wales. |
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In these he again explored a fictionalized version of Mold and its Methodist chapel culture, blending comedy with satire and psychological introspection. |
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The AME, AMEZ and CME are historically African Methodist denominations. |
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The Methodist Church of New Zealand was the fourth most frequent religious affiliation chosen by those who declared one in the 2006 national census. |
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The Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia was founded on his work. |
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She was a member of the Blackstone Valley United Methodist Church in Whitinsville, the Sutton Senior Center, the Sutton Serenaders, and the Young At Hearts. |
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I'm so irritated,'' said Golden, 71, of Glendale, one of an estimated 100 seniors at a Medicare Forum on Thursday at United Methodist Church in Glendale. |
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The Holiness Revival was primarily among people of Methodist persuasion, who felt that the church had once again become apathetic, losing the Wesleyan zeal. |
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Explore the miner's homes, the Methodist chapel and Board school, enjoy pitmen's games and pastimes like quoits and shove ha'penny and entertainment from the times. |
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The latter church was a result of union between the Methodist Protestant Church and the northern and southern factions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. |
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The former church had resulted from mergers of several groups of German Methodist heritage, however there was no longer any need or desire to worship in the German language. |
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Historian Clyde Binfield says their fervent Methodist faith strengthened their commitment to economic independence, spiritual certainty and civic responsibility. |
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In a much larger split, in 1845 at Louisville, the churches of the slaveholding states left the Methodist Episcopal Church and formed The Methodist Episcopal Church, South. |
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In 1968, the Evangelical United Brethren Church's Canadian congregations joined after their American counterparts joined the United Methodist Church. |
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Susan Tiffany Woods and John Colby Johnston were united in marriage on the evening on December 10, 2011, at United Methodist Church in Carrollton. |
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Reverend Major George Neal began to preach in Niagara in October 1786, and was ordained in 1810 by Bishop Philip Asbury, at the Lyons, New York Methodist Conference. |
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Castro grew up in Montevideo and studied at the theological faculty in Buenos Aires, Argentina, before serving Methodist congregations in Uruguay and Bolivia. |
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Upper and Lower Canada were both part of the New York Episcopal Methodist Conference until 1810 when they were transferred to the newly formed Genesee Conference. |
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The 1795 Plan of Pacification permitted Methodist chapels to celebrate Holy Communion where both a majority of trustees and a majority of the stewards and leaders allowed it. |
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The Korean church became fully autonomous in 1930, retaining affiliation with Methodist churches in America and later the United Methodist Church. |
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A call for autonomy from groups within the United Methodist Church in the Philippines was discussed at several conferences led mostly by episcopal candidates. |
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The first Methodist church was dedicated in 1819 at Royapettah. |
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Methodist Church Ghana is one of the largest Methodist denominations, with around 800,000 members in 2,905 congregations, ministered by 700 pastors. |
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From the mission stations established in Badagry and Abeokuta, the Methodist church spread to various parts of the country west of the River Niger and part of the north. |
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Most Methodist denominations in Africa follow the British Methodist tradition and see the Methodist Church of Great Britain as their mother church. |
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The Nova Scotia Methodist Minister noted young Fraser's sincerity and commitment to his congregation and encouraged him by appointing him as assistant. |
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On 26 June 2009, Methodists celebrated the 120th year since Methodism arrived in Czarist Russia by erecting a new Methodist centre in Saint Petersburg. |
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In 1974, a group later known as the Hungarian Evangelical Fellowship seceded from the Hungarian Methodist Church over the question of interference by the communist state. |
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In 1905 a Methodist mission was established also in Budapest. |
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Methodism was also spread in Germany through the missionary work of the American Methodist Episcopal Church, which began in 1849 in Bremen, soon spreading to Saxony. |
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Italian Methodism has its origins in the Italian Free Church, British Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, and the American Methodist Episcopal Mission. |
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Although practice varies between different national churches, most Methodist churches annually follow the call of John Wesley for a renewal of their covenant with God. |
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Methodist churches generally recognise sacraments to be a means of grace. |
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The Wesleyan Education Committee, which existed from 1838 to 1902, has documented the Methodist Church's involvement in the education of children. |
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Denominations that descend from the British Methodist tradition are generally less ritualistic, while American Methodism is more so, the United Methodist Church in particular. |
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In 1925, the United Church of Canada was formed by the majority of Presbyterians combining with the Methodist Church, Canada, and the Congregational Union of Canada. |
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