Do Methodists believe in salvation by grace through faith alone?
Answer Hi, Josh! Yes, United Methodists/Wesleyans believe in salvaton by grace through faith. Glad that you used the whole phrase! As you know it is not just salvation by faith. God’s grace comes first, and in faith we receive and live by it. United Methodists and Baptists have much in common — belief in God and Bible, acceptance of Jesus as Christ and savior and divine, observance of Baptism and Communion as the two sacraments. Our tradition asserts the real, personal, living presence of Jesus Christ. We understand the divine presence in temporal and relational terms. In the Holy Meal of the church, the past, present, and future of the living Christ come together. United Methodists baptize infants, youth, and adults; Baptists baptize only confessing youth and adults. Baptists baptize by immersion; United Methodists use immersion, sprinkling, and pouring. United Methodists have communion open to all; Baptists open the table to baptized church members only. United Methodists have bisho
