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First United Methodist Church

📍15 East 2nd Street, Greensburg, PA ✝united_methodist
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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> Our Mission Home Weekends Worship Bulletins Sunday School Nursery Bible Studies News News Calendar Events About Us Our Mission Pastor Staff History FAQs Ministries Book Club Centering Prayer Community Service Happy Feet Music Program Prayer Chain Ministry Youth at First 1st Things 1st Giving Resources Wedding Info Food Pantry Watch Live Every organization has a reason for existing. Our reason, our mission, is a very simple, yet direct statement. "To know Christ and make Him known." This has two parts. The first is knowing our Savior and Lord, which we do by personal devotion
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about_us
<!doctype html> Pastor - First United Methodist Church, Greensburg, PA Home Weekends Worship Bulletins Sunday School Nursery Bible Studies News News Calendar Events About Us Our Mission Pastor Staff History FAQs Ministries Book Club Centering Prayer Community Service Happy Feet Music Program Prayer Chain Ministry Youth at First 1st Things 1st Giving Resources Wedding Info Food Pantry Watch Live We welcome the newly appointed pastor, Clint Phillips, to our church. If you need pastoral care, please contact the church office at 724.834.3111 or the pastor directly at 724.594.2029. The pastor ca
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<!doctype html> Staff - First United Methodist Church, Greensburg, PA Home Weekends Worship Bulletins Sunday School Nursery Bible Studies News News Calendar Events About Us Our Mission Pastor Staff History FAQs Ministries Book Club Centering Prayer Community Service Happy Feet Music Program Prayer Chain Ministry Youth at First 1st Things 1st Giving Resources Wedding Info Food Pantry Watch Live Staff Jim Caffrey, Jr. Asst. Director of Music Martha "Peaches" Clark Secretary This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Ruth Hughes
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mission
Our Mission Home Weekends Worship Bulletins Sunday School Nursery Bible Studies News News Calendar Events About Us Our Mission Pastor Staff History FAQs Ministries Book Club Centering Prayer Community Service Happy Feet Music Program Prayer Chain Ministry Youth at First 1st Things 1st Giving Resources Wedding Info Food Pantry Watch Live Every organization has a reason for existing. Our reason, our mission, is a very simple, yet direct statement. "To know Christ and make Him known." This has two parts. The first is knowing our Savior and Lord, which we do by personal devotions, learning in Sund
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Staff - First United Methodist Church, Greensburg, PA Home Weekends Worship Bulletins Sunday School Nursery Bible Studies News News Calendar Events About Us Our Mission Pastor Staff History FAQs Ministries Book Club Centering Prayer Community Service Happy Feet Music Program Prayer Chain Ministry Youth at First 1st Things 1st Giving Resources Wedding Info Food Pantry Watch Live Staff Jim Caffrey, Jr. Asst. Director of Music Martha "Peaches" Clark Secretary This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Ruth Hughes Organist Fred Pershing Director of
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about
Pastor - First United Methodist Church, Greensburg, PA Home Weekends Worship Bulletins Sunday School Nursery Bible Studies News News Calendar Events About Us Our Mission Pastor Staff History FAQs Ministries Book Club Centering Prayer Community Service Happy Feet Music Program Prayer Chain Ministry Youth at First 1st Things 1st Giving Resources Wedding Info Food Pantry Watch Live We welcome the newly appointed pastor, Clint Phillips, to our church. If you need pastoral care, please contact the church office at 724.834.3111 or the pastor directly at 724.594.2029. The pastor can also be reached v
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