Memorial Drive United Methodist Church
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A stance that departs from the denomination
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United Methodist Church affirms.
This congregation denies.
"the first infant baptized in the new Church."Source ↗
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
- Homosexual practice and biblical sexual ethicsweakSame-sex marriage authorization implies moral affirmation.
- Infant BaptismstandardWestminster XXVIII; Book of Concord SC IV; Council of Trent Session VII; Wesleyan Articles Art. XVII
- Permissibility of divorce and remarriageweakMatthew 19:9 (adultery ground); 1 Corinthians 7:15 (abandonment ground). Practice varies.
- Women in pastoral / ordained officeweakVarious denominational actions (TEC 1976, ELCA 1970s, PC(USA) 1956, AG 1935, CofE 1994 priests / 2014 bishops, etc.)
Denies
- Assumption of MaryweakUniversal Protestant rejection — not attested in Scripture; not received as dogma.
- Immaculate ConceptionstandardUniversal Protestant + Orthodox rejection. Orthodox reject on the grounds that they hold prepurification at the Annunciation, not conception.
- Marriage as one man and one womanweakPC(USA) 2015; ELCA 2009; TEC 2015; UMC 2024. Same-sex marriage authorized in polity.
- Perpetual Virginity of MaryweakNatural reading of Matthew 13:55–56 (brothers of Jesus); typical modern Baptist / evangelical position.
- TransubstantiationstandardOrthodox reject the Aristotelian metaphysics; Lutherans use 'sacramental union'; 39 Articles Art. XXVIII rejects explicitly; Reformed/Baptist reject substance-change.
Wrestles with
- Apostolic SuccessionweakLutheran and Methodist bodies retain 'succession of doctrine' language without the tactile chain.
- Believer's BaptismweakPaedobaptist bodies practice adult baptism on credible profession where infant baptism was omitted, but do not consider it normative.
- Pacifism vs. just-warweakDefault just-war framework — usually unwritten. Inheriting at weak confidence.
- Real PresenceweakCalvin's spiritual presence (genuinely present but not physically) is neither strong affirm nor deny; Anglican/Methodist typically hold a receptionist view.
- TheotokosweakConfessionally valid title (Ephesus is a received council) but not used devotionally; retained in liturgy where liturgy is retained.
In their own words
Statements
statement_of_faith
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about_us
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About Us Memorial Drive United Methodist Church Facebook YouTube Home Welcome Current Events Ministries Programs Missions Unite About Us History Our Beliefs Staff Home Welcome Current Events Ministries Worship Membership Music Newsletter Programs Children Youth Adults Sunday School Missions Clothes Closet Volunteers in Mission Community Meal Unite Daily Devotional Giving About Us History Our Beliefs Staff Home About Us History (written for the Formal Opening on October 23, 1951, and for the placing in the Cornerstone as laid during the above service) The History of the Memorial Drive MethodistSource ↗
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History Memorial Drive United Methodist Church Facebook YouTube Home Welcome Current Events Ministries Programs Missions Unite About Us History Our Beliefs Staff Home Welcome Current Events Ministries Worship Membership Music Newsletter Programs Children Youth Adults Sunday School Missions Clothes Closet Volunteers in Mission Community Meal Unite Daily Devotional Giving About Us History Our Beliefs Staff Home About Us History History (written for the Formal Opening on October 23, 1951, and for the placing in the Cornerstone as laid during the above service) The History of the Memorial Drive MeSource ↗
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