Here at Brighton Methodist Church, we are Bible believing, Spirit-led faithful followers that strive to share God’s love with others as we continue to grow in relationship with the Lord and go out and make disciples for His Glory and Kingdom.
What does Brighton Methodist Church believe?
Since its inception, God’s Spirit has enlivened the Methodist movement. In the 1720s John and Charles Wesley and friends at Oxford University met together to deepen their Christian faith through daily, practical spiritual disciplines. Derided by others as a “new sect of Methodists” for their “methodical” ways of practicing the faith and holding one another accountable to it, the small group embraced the insult and persevered in their fellowship. And so they and the millions who followed after them have ever since been known as “the people called Methodists.”
In that spirit, this Book of Doctrines and Discipline (BDD) of the Global Methodist Church is intended to serve as a resource for all who wish to join in a “methodical,” practical, and warm-hearted pursuit of loving God and serving others as Jesus’ disciples in the world. Beginning with confessions rooted in Scripture and shaped by the great teaching of the Church universal, the Book of Doctrines and Discipline provides the essential structure for the Global Methodist Church from its official launch on May 1, 2022. It is offered with the prayer that it will help guide us in a new season of the church’s life as we make disciples of Jesus Christ and spread scriptural holiness across the globe.
Statements of Belief – The Articles of Religion
Brighton Methodist Church and the Global Methodist Church are grounded in Wesleyan tradition which began in 1784 in America. At the church’s inception, John Wesley provided a liturgy and a doctrinal statement containing the “Articles of Religion” or basic statements of belief. These Articles were taken from the Church of England—the church out of which the Methodist movement began and were the standards for preaching within the Methodist movement. The articles were voted on by the American Methodist conference, published in the church’s 1790 Book of Discipline and became the basic standards for Christian belief of the Methodist Church in North America and have continued to be part of the Methodist’s official statement of belief.
For more information you can visit the Global Methodist Church website here.
Our Mission is to make disciples of Jesus Christ who worship passionately, love extravagantly, and witness boldly.
