Attractive Assets of the Free Methodist Church

• The proclamation of the Wesleyan recovery of the New Testament message of the present power and cleansing of the Holy Spirit
• A firm attachment to the doctrines and practices of classical orthodoxy.  Wesley in his "Character of a Methodist" described a classical Christian, nothing more and nothing less
• A commitment to world-wide evangelism and a global network
• A connected network for mutual encouragement, sharing of gifts and mobilization for ministry
• A structure providing full participation, broad permissions and careful accountability
• An "earnest Christian ethos of responsible Christian living
• A commitment to the Church both universal and local as God's principal instrument for reaching a lost world
• A dedication to the apostolic mode, and a passion for the Great Commission enterprise of offering salvation in Christ to the world
• A Wesleyan reforming zeal to clean up our world by God's message and power and our servanthood.

Bishop Emeritus Gerald E Bates