United Methodist Church (Great Britain)

Former religious denomination in Great Britain

For the United States-based denomination of the same name, see United Methodist Church.

Not to be confused with the Methodist Church of Great Britain.

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Distinctive beliefs and practices

* Assurance of faith
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of the saints
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* Sainthood
* Four sources of theological authority
* Covenant theology
* Substitutionary atonement
* Imparted righteousness
* Moral law
* New birth
* Free will
* Outward holiness
* Prevenient grace
* Real presence
* Sanctification (growth in grace)
* Sunday Sabbatarianism
* Christian perfection
* Second work of grace
* Baptism with the Holy Spirit
* Views on sin
* Works of piety
* Works of mercy

Worship

* The Sunday Service of the Methodists
* Covenant Renewal Service
* Revival service
* Altar call
* Mourner's bench
* Camp meeting
* Tabernacle
* Tent revival
* Brush arbor revival
* Lovefeast
* Singings
* Watchnight service

People

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* Richard Allen
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* Thomas Coke
* John William Fletcher
* Orange Scott
* William Williams Pantycelyn
* Benjamin Titus Roberts
* Walter Ashbel Sellew
* Howell Harris
* Albert Outler
* James Varick
* Countess of Huntingdon
* Phoebe Palmer
* George Whitefield

* Bishops
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* Groups
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* Methodist Church of Great Britain
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* United Methodist Church
* World Methodist Council
* Global Methodist Church
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Organization

* Connexionalism
* General Conference
* Methodist Circuit
* Pastoral charge
* Class meeting
* Penitent band

Related groups

* Holiness movement
* Conservative holiness movement
* Holiness Pentecostalism
* Evangelicalism

Other relevant topics

* Saints in Methodism
* Methodist views on alcohol
* Methodist local preacher
* Itinerant preacher
* Circuit rider
* Steward
* Homosexuality and Methodism
* Ordination of women in Methodism
* Bishops in Methodism

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The United Methodist Church in Great Britain was a Protestant denomination which operated from 1907 to 1932. It was a relatively small grouping of British Methodism, formed in 1907 by the union of the United Methodist Free Churches with two other small groupings, the Bible Christian Church and the Methodist New Connexion.[1]

## Formation

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United Kingdom legislation

United Methodist Church Act 1907

Act of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Long title| An Act to authorise the union of the Methodist New Connexion the Bible Christians and the United Methodist Free Churches under the name of "The United Methodist Church" to deal with real and personal property belonging to the said churches or denominations to provide for the vesting of the said property in trust for the United Church so formed and for the assimilation of the trusts thereof and for other purposes.
Citation| 7 Edw. 7. c. lxxv
Dates
Royal assent| 26 July 1907
Text of statute as originally enacted

The United Methodist Church Act 1907 (7 Edw. 7. c. lxxv), the act of Parliament which enabled this amalgamation, received royal assent on 26 July 1907, and authorised the union "to deal with real and personal property belonging to the said three churches or denominations, to provide for the vesting of the said property in trust for the United Church so formed and for the assimilation of the trusts thereof, and for other purposes".[2] The union was completed on 16 September 1907 in Wesley's Chapel, City Road, London. The Church gave power of speech and vote in its meetings to every member of 18 years of age and upwards.[citation needed] Its principal courts were constituted of an equal number of ministers and laymen.

The Church had theological colleges at Manchester and Sheffield, boys' schools at Shebbear College, Devon and at Ashville College in Harrogate, and a girls' school, Edgehill College at Bideford. It issued a weekly and two monthly journals.[2]

In the Methodist Union of 1932 the United Methodists merged with the Primitive Methodists and the Wesleyan Methodists to form a new church, known simply as the "Methodist Church".[1]

The British United Methodist Church had no particular connection with the United Methodist Church in the United States, other than a common Methodist heritage; the American church did not take the title "United Methodist Church" until 1968.[3]

## Further reading

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* My United Methodists, website provided by the present-day Methodist Church of Great Britain.

## References

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1. ^ a b Davies, R. E. (1985). Methodism (2nd ed.). Peterborough: Epworth Press. pp. 159–161.
2. ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "United Methodist Church" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 608.
3. ^ Davies, R. E. (1985). Methodism (2nd ed.). Peterborough: Epworth Press. p. 143.

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