A Methodist Is?

A Methodist Loves People

(NRSV)

31 The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” A Methodist has devoted himself/herself to God, and believes that in order to claim to love God, we must also love our brother. (NRSV)

20 Those who say, “I love God,” and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen. Nothing stops his/her love.

A Methodist is Pure of Heart

(NRSV)

The Fruit of the Spirit

(Cp )

22 By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, A Methodist has faithfulness that is slow to anger, full of patience, kindness, and generosity. All of this is a gift given by God to those who make Him Lord and Master.

A Methodist Seeks to Please God

(NRSV)

Shining as Lights in the World

12 Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence, but much more now in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

A Methodist has adopted a love for God that calls for a single focus. A focus that follows God’s will. For that reason, a Methodist will have light in their hearts.

A Methodist Keeps God’s Commandments

(NRSV)

29 If only they had such a mind as this, to fear me and to keep all my commandments always, so that it might go well with them and with their children forever! A Methodist knows that in order to please God, they must live out the Commandments handed down by God through Moses. In the world today, we seem to be directed by society. In the Ten Commandments, God didn’t say follow these rules but if society tells you it is okay to disobey, I understand. (NRSV)

The Great Commandment

6 Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that the Lord your God charged me to teach you to observe in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy, 2 so that you and your children and your children’s children may fear the Lord your God all the days of your life, and keep all his decrees and his commandments that I am commanding you, so that your days may be long. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe them diligently, so that it may go well with you, and so that you may multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has promised you.