Free Methodist Church

Overview

The Free Methodist Church was organized in 1860 by B.T. Roberts and other Methodists expelled from the Methodist Episcopal Church over their abolitionist witness and their rejection of pew rents, which they judged to exclude the poor. The denomination holds Wesleyan-Arminian theology, Holiness-tradition teaching on entire sanctification, believer's baptism, and biblical sexual ethics, and it ordains both men and women. AskCredo places the Free Methodist Church in the B-tier as a broadly orthodox Wesleyan-Holiness body, with the standard Reformed reservations about its Arminian soteriology and its teaching on Christian perfection.

Confession / Standard

Free Methodist Articles of Religion

Governance

episcopal

Soteriology

arminian

Key Beliefs

• Wesleyan-Arminian soteriology
• Entire sanctification
• Biblical inerrancy
• Social holiness
• Traditional marriage

Distinctives

• Arminian soteriology

Background

North America · Founded 1860

Official Website

https://fmcusa.org