What We Believe

United Methodists affirm the historic creeds ( Apostle’s and Nicene ) of the Christian church.

We use a rubric for growing in the Christian faith called the Wesleyan Quadrilateral that draws upon Scripture, tradition, reason and experience as we attend to the Scripture way of salvation. For United Methodists, Scripture is considered the primary source andstandard for Christian doctrine. Tradition is experience and the witness of development and growth of the faith through the past centuries and in many nations and cultures. Experience is the individual's understanding and appropriating of the faith in the light of his or her own life. Through reason the individual Christian brings to bear on the Christian faith discerning and cogent thought. These four elements taken together bring the individual Christian to a mature and fulfilling understanding of the Christian faith and the required response of worship and service.
*Source: A Dictionary for United Methodists, Alan K. Waltz, Copyright 1991, Abingdon Press.

You can read more about our values, our understanding of God’s grace, specific beliefs in the pages below.