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Methodist Church

Methodist Church

13 3.2
A Christian group that follows John Wesley's teaching and cares about personal faith and social justice
  • proper noun
translation icon : iglesia metodista
  • So the United Methodist Church is a large organization and they decided they gave thumbs up to same sex marriage.
  • the United Methodist Church

I grew up in Stonewall, Stonewall, NC United Methodist Church.

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Examples

  • If you find yourself more drawn to order and structure, then maybe the Methodist Church is the church for you, or the Presbyterian Church.

  • Today, only a few homes and the Mt. Olive United Methodist Church remain.

    Blog text (25)

  • I dropped out of Sunday school and started going to the Methodist Church.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • In the last few elections, United Methodist Church played a pretty important role.

  • I was raised in a family that went to a Methodist Church, a pretty liberal one in a small town in Michigan.

  • After the Catholic Church, the Methodist Church is the second greatest powerhouse in the region.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Membership in the United Methodist Church fell from 11 million in 1965 to 8.2 million in 2005.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Osterhout worked as a teacher, missionary, and administrator within the Methodist Church of Canada over several decades.

    Academic text (2016)

  • The university was established in 1856 by the African Methodist Church, 25 miles east of Dayton, Ohio.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Every Sunday, many families gather to worship at the Methodist Church in their community.

Synonyms

Methodist denomination
vsMethodist Church
5.5

A group of churches that follow Methodist beliefs and have similar worship and rules

is the body founded on Wesley teachings, stressing personal faith and social justice

Surface Forms

Methodist Church main

Morphology

Methodist + church

The compound is transparently compositional: 'Methodist' identifies affiliation with Methodism and 'church' names a Christian body, so a learner who knows both constituents will infer it denotes the Christian denomination or its congregational organization. This pattern (denomination adjective + church) is cross‑linguistically common (e.g., Iglesia Metodista, Église méthodiste), so the meaning is immediately accessible without special cultural knowledge.

Etymology

Methodist Church comes from a nickname for people called Methodists who followed a careful 'method' of prayer, study and good habits under John and Charles Wesley. That's why the name now means a Christian group that focuses on personal faith and helping others.