Beliefs

The founder of the Methodist Church laid down Our Beliefs.
These have become known as the “Four Alls’ of Methodism

1. “All need to be saved”
Sin is a deep-seated self-seeking from which no-one is immune. The Bible states simply: “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”
(Romans 3 v 23)

2. “All can be saved”
Gospel means ‘good news’ - we cannot save ourselves but have in Jesus Christ a Saviour. None need be excluded from this salvation, for ‘God sent the Son into the world that the world might be saved through him’
(John 3 v 17)

3. “All may know themselves saved”
We come to a total knowledge of salvation through the promises of God in scripture, the intense conviction of God’s graciousness to us individually, and a different outlook on life, leading to a changed quality of living
(Romans 8 v 16)

4. “All may be completely saved”
John Wesley regarded this doctrine as the reason for Methodism’s existence and for its task which was to ‘spread scriptural holiness throughout the land’. Being saved completely means being made perfect in love
(Hewbrews 7 v 25)