Five Values that Shape our Identity
FREE METHODISTS are first and foremost a Kingdom people. Yet throughout church history God has raised up distinct movements like ours to enrich the larger body of Christ. . . We call it The Free Methodist Way.
Life-Giving Holiness
GOD’S CALL TO HOLINESS was never meant to be a burden, but a gift that liberates us
for life that is truly life by delivering us from the destructive power of sin.
Love-Driven Justice
LOVE IS THE WAY WE DEMONSTRATE GOD’S HEART FOR JUSTICE by valuing the image of God
in all men, women, and children, acting with compassion toward the oppressed,
resisting oppression, and stewarding Creation.
Christ-Compelled Multiplication
THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST — the message He proclaimed, the life He lived, and the
ministry He modeled — set into motion a redemptive movement destined to fill the
whole earth.
Cross-Cultural Collaboration
FROM THE BEGINNING, GOD’S INTENT WAS TO HAVE A PEOPLE FROM EVERY NATION, culture and
ethnicity, united in Christ and commissioned to carry out His work in the world.
God-Given Revelation
WE HOLD UNWAVERINGLY to our conviction that the Bible is the inspired Word of God and
our final authority in all matters of faith and practice.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is good news…
and Grace is the thread that weaves through the story.
“Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found. Was blind, but now I see.”
The familiar words of this hymn echo the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. All humanity needs good news because we share a common experience with the writer of these lyrics; We are lost, blind, and sin-stained. The good news of the amazing grace of Jesus deals with all three and sets us on a path of freedom, wholeness, and restoration.
The Bible, God’s Word, tells the story of grace for all humankind. Its stories, wisdom, knowledge, revelation, and truth show us how Jesus came to overcome sin’s penalty and power that left us helpless and hopeless; facing eternal death apart from God. The Apostle John said it this way, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29b)
The working of God’s grace does more than bestow favor. Grace replaces the influences of sin, darkness and shame, with God’s divine influences of light and holiness. Grace, then, is not only beneficial to those that receive it, but flows through us to reach out to others.