Methodists are mainline Protestants, not evangelicals though, no?

April 11, 2026 - 00:01 UTC

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Correct. They tend to understand that the Bible isn’t to be taking literally, especially the stoning and smiting.
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They're lumped with the mainline Protestants because they can read, but their origin is actually in the same Great Awakening/Christian revival movement as the rest of the evangelicals.
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"[L]ove thy neighbour as thyself. Neither is love content with barely working no evil to our neighbour. It continually incites us to do good: as we have time, and opportunity, to do good in every possible kind, and in every possible degree to all." John Wesley, 1799 (English Methodist here 🙂)
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UMC are, but there are evangelical Methodists like the GMC.
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