Congregational Methodist Church

Congregational Methodist Church
Classification	Protestantism, Methodism
Orientation	Wesleyan-Holiness
Polity	Congregational
Region	Worldwide
Origin	1852 Georgia
Separated from	Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Separations	First Congregational Methodist Church (1855), First Congregational Methodist Church of the USA (1941), New Congregational Methodist Church (1881), Southern Congregational Methodist Church
Congregations	187 (1995)
Members	14,738 (1995)

The Congregational Methodist Church is a Christian denomination located primarily in the southern United States and northeastern Mexico. It is within the Holiness movement and has its theological roots in Wesleyanism. As of 1995, the denomination reported 14,738 in 187 churches.^[1]

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The Congregational Methodist Church was founded in Georgia in 1852 when several churches split from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South out of a desire to blend Methodist doctrine with congregational polity.

The Congregational Methodist Church is Wesleyan-Arminian in doctrine, congregational in its system of worship, republican or representative in its system of government, connexional in nature, missionary in outlook, evangelistic in endeavor, and cooperative in spirit. Each local church calls its pastor, owns its property, and sets its budget.

Its congregations are located from Georgia and Florida westward to Texas and northeastern Mexico. They extend northward to southeastern Missouri and southern Indiana. It also has missionaries in the United States, Mexico, Belize, Haiti, and Bolivia.

In 1944, the Congregational Methodist Church, then headquartered in Dallas, Texas, established The Dallas Bible School, an institution of higher education. The school was moved to Tehuacana, Texas, for several years, and was renamed Westminster College and Bible Institute. The school was permanently relocated to Florence, Mississippi in 1972, and was renamed Wesley College, a name that more reflected its Wesleyan-Arminian tradition. Wesley College was closed in July 2010.^[2]

Congregational Methodist Headquarters are located in Florence, Mississippi, serving churches and programs of the denomination.

References

↑ Mead, Frank, et al., Handbook of Denominations, 12th Edition, Abingdon Press, 2005.
↑ Wright, Megan (July 14, 2010). "Debt-ridden Wesley College closing". Mississippi Business Journal. Retrieved 14 January 2016.

External Links

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