Saturday, March 1, 2025

MAINLINE PROTESTANT: Wesleyan

Whoever says “I know Him” but does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps His word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in Him: Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.
1 John 2:3,4/John 17:17
The Wesleyan movement tend to be Amillennial, Arminian Free Will -- hence the heavy focus on Sanctification and have their own brand of Episcopal polity (Connexionalism). That good works are the fruit of faith and regeneration. Their motto is "Deeds not Creeds".
*Their biggest denomination was the United Methodist (which just split over the LGBT issue with the Global Methodist). The United Methodist was the Methodist Episcopal Church renamed when it merged in the 1960's with the liberal United Brethren New Lights.
*The Wesleyan Methodist Church allowed some congregations of the liberal Pilgrim Holiness to merge with them in the 1960's and became just the Wesleyan Church.
(@) = the Larger ones

United Methodist (Liberal)@
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***Free Methodist (wanted equal numbers of laity with clergy on church boards)@
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*      ***Evangelical Wesleyan Church (Holiness/Conservative)
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***Methodist Protestant Church (Congregational)
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***Alliance of Independent Methodist Churches (Conservative/Congregational)
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***Southern Methodist Church (Conservative)
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***Congregational Methodist (Congregational)
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***Pilgrim Holiness (Congregational/Liberal/Holiness)
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*      ***Immanuel Missionary Church (Conservative/Holiness/Congregational)
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* Wesleyan Church (Moderate-Conservative/Holiness)@
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*       ***Alleghany Methodist Connection (Conservative/Holiness)
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* **Evangelical Methodist Church (Conservative/Dispensationalism)@
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***New Methodist Conference (Blends Catholic Liturgy)
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***Global Methodist Church (Conservative/split over LGBT Clergy)@

Primitive Methodist Church (Came over from England's Holiness Movement)

BLACK METHODIST CHURCHES
African Methodist Episcopal Church (Moderate)@

African Methodist Episcopal Church of Zion (Liberal--Al Sharpton's Church)@

Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (Conservative)@

African Union Methodist Protestant Church (Moderate)

Lumber River Conference of the Holiness Methodist Church (Holiness)

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