It is natural for a friend or visitor to the Spring City United Methodist Church to wonder, “Just what kind of church this is, and what do its people believe?”
- We are a United Methodist Church and as a United Methodist Church we are connected and committed in Mission and Ministry with approximately 9.5 million other United Methodist throughout the country.
- We are Christ centered and Biblically and Socially focused in preaching. We believe in a personal relationship to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. We desire to be a warm, caring fellowship, meeting the needs of all ages and offering an environment for individual and family growth and maturity in the Christian faith. United Methodist look to the Bible as the source and guideline for Christian teaching. The Old and New testaments are the church’s cherished record of God’s acts in creation and in the lives of his creatures.
- We believe that God’s self disclosure of saving grace was not limited to those who lived in biblical times. God has continued to make His will and way known through scripture in every generation. The new insights from scripture as adopted by each emerging generation are tested, refined, and preserved for successive generations through tradition.
- We are commissioned for ministry through baptism. Ministry is the function of all disciples. Only the unique ministries of sword Sacrament, and Order are expressly set apart as the function of ordained ministers. All disciples are expected to witness to their faith through good works.
- We believe that as we eat the broken bread and drink the blessed cup in faith we are united with Christ through the Holy Spirit. The table of our Lord is open to all who come in faith. No limitations of education, age, race, or class are imposed.
- United Methodists believe that God has given us the capacity to think and that our minds are an asset in formulating and affirming our religious beliefs.
- Our beliefs are not limited to what our minds can grasp. God has revealed Himself in dimensions that exceed our powers of reasoning. We respond in faith to God with our whole being.
- We try to perceive the whole of God’s created universe in miniature, but each small part must continuously be enlarged, modifies, and interrelated. God’s challenge that we become integrated persons with sustaining beliefs is both frightening and encouraging.