Omnia Methodist Posts

John Wesley left the people called Methodist a trio of doctrinal standards: The Twenty-Five Articles of Religion of the Methodist Church, the Fifty-Two Standard Sermons and his Notes on the New Testament. This trio of doctrinal standards have always been our official doctrinal standards. The Articles being the law of our doctrine and the other two being the spirit of our doctrine. The former being […]

Methodism has always had a primary concern with the person and work of the Holy Spirit. John Wesley’s sermons revolved around a robust pneumatology (theology of the Holy Spirit) with great regularity. Yet over the course of a couple of centuries, the Holy Ghost became somewhat alien to average churchgoers, taking the place of something […]

“My point in saying all of this is straightforward: Orthodox Protestantism is on the decline; the supposed “Anti-Catholic” articles of the Methodist Articles are more relevant than ever. ” ~ On April 1st of this year, 2026, the Global Methodist Church put forward a new confession, the Articles of Faith, that is proposed to replace the 1960’s Evangelical United Brethren (EUB) […]

The battle between Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas and its regional governing body in The United Methodist Church may boil down to whether large and small churches in the denomination can continue to operate by the same governing rules. At a town hall meeting held in an overflowing Wesley Hall at the North Dallas […]

Why is it so important to teach the Christian faith to the next generation? And what happens when the Church stops doing it? In this episode of It’s Elementary, Dr. David Watson and Dr. Tesia Mallory explore the importance of passing on the faith through Scripture, doctrine, worship, discipleship, and theological education. Reflecting on recent […]

I love the Global Methodist Church. I don’t say that casually. I wasn’t raised Methodist. I was raised in the Baptist Church, and I remain deeply grateful for the pastors, musicians, teachers, and congregations that formed my Christian faith there. God eventually led me into the Methodist tradition. And within the young connection we now […]

To some degree, Methodism has always been a lay-led movement. Without the proactive engagement of laity, clergy never would have gotten very far. In an early colonial setting in America, with circuit riders giving intermittent care to congregations, it was lay leadership that kept churches afloat. More than that, discerning lay leadership kept Methodism spreading […]

The 2026 General Conference of the Global Methodist Church will be livestreamed here and through the Global Methodist Church’s official YouTube channel. Please return when General Conference begins to watch the official broadcast—and invite your congregation, family, and friends to join us online.

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Some legislation before the coming General Conference is more theological or theoretical than other legislation. One category of legislation is more immediately practical than perhaps any other: How are we to govern our churches? Specifically, how will we protect one another from ‘disorderly walkers’ or bad actors in the church? There hasn’t ever been a […]

Holiness is a primary concern, not just of the Wesleyan/Methodist tradition, but of the Bible. Without holiness, no one will see the Lord. Our Lord is holy, and He has called us to be holy as He is holy. Even so, as Global Methodists talk about the call to holiness, I sometimes get the sense […]

Yesterday’s panel on Church Discipline figured a good deal into the conversation around judicial administration. The rules we already have in place may or may not be sufficient for protecting good order in our covenant body. The reality of our culture seems to be a mitigating concern when considering the execution of our disciplinary practices. […]

Talk is talk; action is action. These things don’t always match up. My previous denomination, The United Methodist Church, talked a big game about international respect and the global nature of the church, but then they resegregated themselves from nonAmericans by the creation of regional conferences. The Global Methodist Church, having left the UMC, has […]

In 1788, John Wesley published portions of a famous work on manners by the Italian author Baldassare Castiglione which first appeared in English in 1528. Manners, or civility, was a topic of great interest in eighteenth-century Britain. And Wesley, like so many others, tied manners to religion, i.e. a settled heart will be evident in […]

The first thing you’ll find below is a PDF of this article, below that you will find the same content. The only difference is the PDF will contain the endnotes as footnotes (if you are like me and hate turning to the back of something to find the notes), and relevant hyperlinks throughout the document. […]