History of United Methodist Church

Methodism began to spread in the United States from 1730's. In 1784 Baltimore was the conference, which was formed by a separate and independent Anglican, church organization the Methodist Episcopal Church. The United Methodist Church (UMC) was created from a spiritual and social renewal movement in the 18th Century by the Anglican priest John Wesley and his younger brother Charles Wesley.

Methodists

In 1729, the Wesley brothers studied theology in the Oxford University where they brought together a special group of students who were added when his brother John, took over the leadership of this group. The young men, who came here together, prayed together and took care of poor and sick people and prisoners. Because they lived their faith with great seriousness, and for a specific method, this group was derisively known as "Methodists". This nickname was later transferred to the renewal movement. The two brothers followed a call after graduation to America to work among the Indians missionary (United Methodist, 147). This work had to stop it without success and then went back to the UK. There, in 1738, both made some deep spiritual experiences and found a certainty of being accepted by God's love.

By George Whitefield, who had already heard about the Oxford group of students, the momentum, not only in churches, but rather to preach in the open - and so to reach the people to whom the church had become a stranger. From then on, the movement spread rapidly. From communities in London, Bristol and Newcastle to a network of Methodist communities in the UK, Ireland and Scotland. In addition to preaching in the open it was also possible because John Wesley laid preacher who was appointed to head the newly established communities. Newly created songs were equally important and was found in the important aspects of the theology and experience of moving their catchy phrase. Above all, Charles Wesley was around 6,500 songs with its decisive impetus for the movement of their spirituality and evangelism (Tuell, 77). John Wesley was not only a preacher and organizer of the emerging movement, but this has always connected with a strong commitment to social issues. He stood up headed for the renewal of the penal system and the abolition of slavery, to health care and the right use of money.

Reformers of the Anglican Church

John and Charles Wesley did not form their own church, but replaced the Anglican Church. Their own church was the Methodist renewal movement but first approximation and the lifetimes of the Wesleys in America. The emigrants who came into the English colonies in North America, this movement spread from there as well. When, after independence, the Anglican Church of the breakaway colonies withdrew because she was a church of the English crown, organized Methodist church in this no man's land. From these beginnings grew the Methodist Church in the United States. Dr. Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury were the first bishops of the "Methodist Episcopal Church". Developed alongside ...