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Prospect United Methodist Church

📍99 Summer Street, Bristol, CT
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AI summary — doctrinal positions on this page are inferred by AI from this church's own public statements and may be inaccurate.

Inherited from denomination

What United Methodist Church teaches

Positions bound by the denomination's confessional standards. This is what the tradition teaches; whether this specific congregation publicly holds each is a separate question — see Statements below.

Affirms
Denies
  • Assumption of Maryweak
    Universal Protestant rejection — not attested in Scripture; not received as dogma.
  • Immaculate Conceptionstandard
    Universal Protestant + Orthodox rejection. Orthodox reject on the grounds that they hold prepurification at the Annunciation, not conception.
  • Marriage as one man and one womanweak
    PC(USA) 2015; ELCA 2009; TEC 2015; UMC 2024. Same-sex marriage authorized in polity.
  • Perpetual Virginity of Maryweak
    Natural reading of Matthew 13:55–56 (brothers of Jesus); typical modern Baptist / evangelical position.
  • Transubstantiationstandard
    Orthodox reject the Aristotelian metaphysics; Lutherans use 'sacramental union'; 39 Articles Art. XXVIII rejects explicitly; Reformed/Baptist reject substance-change.
Wrestles with
  • Apostolic Successionweak
    Lutheran and Methodist bodies retain 'succession of doctrine' language without the tactile chain.
  • Believer's Baptismweak
    Paedobaptist bodies practice adult baptism on credible profession where infant baptism was omitted, but do not consider it normative.
  • Pacifism vs. just-warweak
    Default just-war framework — usually unwritten. Inheriting at weak confidence.
  • Real Presenceweak
    Calvin's spiritual presence (genuinely present but not physically) is neither strong affirm nor deny; Anglican/Methodist typically hold a receptionist view.
  • Theotokosweak
    Confessionally valid title (Ephesus is a received council) but not used devotionally; retained in liturgy where liturgy is retained.
In their own words

Statements

about_us
<!DOCTYPE html> About US Skip to content Search for: Menu PUMC About US Leadership Board Music News You Tube Channel Newsletters Children and Youth Ministry Mission Covenant Relationship Donate Online About US Staff Rev. Saebuek Lee , Pastor Heidi Flower Director of Music & Organist Rev. Saebuek Lee is getting acquainted with Connecticut in general and Bristol specifically since he moved here in late June to prepare for his new assignment to assume pastoral duties for both Prospect and Asbury United Methodist churches. Saebuek, who just turned 34, followed in the foo
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mission
Mission Skip to content Search for: Menu PUMC About US Leadership Board Music News You Tube Channel Newsletters Children and Youth Ministry Mission Covenant Relationship Donate Online Mission Days for Girls A few of us have been working with Days for Girls (DFG) now for over two years. We are a small group but we are also committed to this cause. As most of you know. DFG is a nonprofit organization that started up 10 years ago. The founder went to Africa on a mission trip and had a thought while there “What do the girls do at that time of the month.” The answer was not pleasant. She went home
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mission
Covenant Relationship Skip to content Search for: Menu PUMC About US Leadership Board Music News You Tube Channel Newsletters Children and Youth Ministry Mission Covenant Relationship Donate Online Covenant Relationship What is a Covenant Relationship? The General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church has missionaries all over the world! It could be a bustling eastern European city, or grassy plains of central Africa, or the central American coastal plains, but Methodist missionaries are there. There are over 300 Global Ministry missionaries in 60 countries! When a congrega
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about
About US Skip to content Search for: Menu PUMC About US Leadership Board Music News You Tube Channel Newsletters Children and Youth Ministry Mission Covenant Relationship Donate Online About US Staff Rev. Saebuek Lee , Pastor Heidi Flower Director of Music & Organist Rev. Saebuek Lee is getting acquainted with Connecticut in general and Bristol specifically since he moved here in late June to prepare for his new assignment to assume pastoral duties for both Prospect and Asbury United Methodist churches. Saebuek, who just turned 34, followed in the footsteps of his father and great grandfather
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mission
<!DOCTYPE html> Covenant Relationship Skip to content Search for: Menu PUMC About US Leadership Board Music News You Tube Channel Newsletters Children and Youth Ministry Mission Covenant Relationship Donate Online Covenant Relationship What is a Covenant Relationship? The General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church has missionaries all over the world! It could be a bustling eastern European city, or grassy plains of central Africa, or the central American coastal plains, but Methodist missionaries are there. There are over 300 Global Ministry missio
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about
About US Skip to content Search for: Menu PUMC About US Leadership Board Music News You Tube Channel Newsletters Children and Youth Ministry Mission Covenant Relationship Donate Online About US Staff Rev. Saebuek Lee , Pastor Heidi Flower Director of Music & Organist Rev. Saebuek Lee is getting acquainted with Connecticut in general and Bristol specifically since he moved here in late June to prepare for his new assignment to assume pastoral duties for both Prospect and Asbury United Methodist churches. Saebuek, who just turned 34, followed in the footsteps of his father and great grandfather
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mission
<!DOCTYPE html> Mission Skip to content Search for: Menu PUMC About US Leadership Board Music News You Tube Channel Newsletters Children and Youth Ministry Mission Covenant Relationship Donate Online Mission Days for Girls A few of us have been working with Days for Girls (DFG) now for over two years. We are a small group but we are also committed to this cause. As most of you know. DFG is a nonprofit organization that started up 10 years ago. The founder went to Africa on a mission trip and had a thought while there “What do the girls do at that time of the month.” The
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about_us
<!DOCTYPE html> About US Skip to content Search for: Menu PUMC About US Leadership Board Music News You Tube Channel Newsletters Children and Youth Ministry Mission Covenant Relationship Donate Online About US Staff Rev. Saebuek Lee , Pastor Heidi Flower Director of Music & Organist Rev. Saebuek Lee is getting acquainted with Connecticut in general and Bristol specifically since he moved here in late June to prepare for his new assignment to assume pastoral duties for both Prospect and Asbury United Methodist churches. Saebuek, who just turned 34, followed in the foo
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