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Along with all United Methodists, we share a common heritage with Christians of every age and nation. This heritage is grounded in the apostolic witness to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, which is the source and measure of all valid Christian teaching. We hold in common with all Christians a faith in the mystery of salvation in and through Jesus Christ. We share the Christian belief that God's redemptive love is realized in human life by the activity of the Holy Spirit, both in personal experience and in the community of believers. We understand ourselves to be part of the universal church when by adoration, proclamation and service we become conformed to Christ. With other Christians we recognize the reign of God is both a present and future reality. We share with many Christians communities a recognition of the authority of Scripture in matters of faith, the confession that our justification as sinners is by grace through faith, and the sober realization that the church is in need of continual reformation and renewal. As United Methodists, firmly rooted in the teachings of John Wesley, we believe in "practical divinty," the experiental realization of the gospel of Jesus Christ in the lives of Christian people. As United Methodists, we believe in the historic creeds, The Nicene and the Apostle's Creeds.
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