What is distinctive about the Free Methodist Church?
Every evangelical denomination shares certain doctrinal commitments with all other evangelical bodies. For instance, all believe that the Christian Scriptures are the Word of God, and are completely trustworthy in teaching what we must believe and how we must live. And, we share the belief that just as one must enter the human family by a human birth, so one must enter the kingdom of God by a second and spiritual birth. Moreover, we hold the conviction that God’s people have a mandate to spread the gospel far and wide. Beyond such essential beliefs, however, denominations differ in their distinctive emphases: Evangelical Baptists tend to emphasize the believer’s baptism by immersion; evangelical Presbyterians and other Reformed bodies speak much of the sovereignty of God; and the Christian and Missionary Alliance emphasizes the missionary task of the church. A distinctive of the Free Methodist Church is the call to holiness of heart and life resulting in a life of consecrated service t
