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- We are not Baptists, but like the Baptists, we believe in calling people to repentance and to witnessing to their new life in Christ through public baptism.
- We are not Presbyterians, but like the Presbyterians we believe in the power of the preaching of the Word of God to bring about change in peoples lives.
- We are not Lutherans, but like the Lutherans, we believe in salvation through Jesus Christ on the authority of Scripture alone, in salvation by faith alone and in salvation as a gift of God’s grace alone.
- We are not Charismatics - no, we do not speak in tongues in our services but like the Charismatics we believe in the gifts of the Spirit who gives people the power to live a Christ like life and to make a real difference in their world.
- We are not Episcopalians - although John Wesley was a lifelong Anglican, but like the Episcopalians we take worship seriously (we just choose to be a little less formal in our worship services).
- We are not Congregationalists, but we have borrowed some of their ideas on local church organization.
- We are not Quakers or Moravians, but like these pietistic groups, we believe in living a careful life that testifies to the watching world that we belong to the family of God.
- We are not United Methodists, although we have our roots in the Methodist tradition that grew out of John Wesleys revival movement in the 1700s. We have good fellowship with our United Methodist cousins but we are organizationally separate for historical reasons.
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