Beliefs & Practices

We began as a church planting movement! Our historic roots, tradition and theology extend from the beginning of Methodism with John Wesley in England and the spreading of American Methodism with Francis Asbury. This move of God brought new churches and transformed communities across the spreading American landscape.

The Evangelical Methodist Church came into existence in 1946 as a Good News Movement of fresh wind and fire for renewal and revival across America. For over 60 years our evangelistic fervor and evangelical holiness theology identifies us with the original biblically focused Methodism. We are asking the Lord to renew this spiritual vitality in a revived ‘church planting movement’ for ministry in the 21st century.

Our message is one of refuge and transformation. A personal relationship with Jesus Christ anchored in a church offering the positive message of forgiveness from sin and the sharing new life in a Spirit filled life will radically transform any person into the image of Christ.

We mobilize ourselves to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to ‘make disciples’. The call of the Great Commission begins with preaching the gospel of salvation through faith, but the command is to ‘make disciples among all ethnic groups’ (Matthew 28:19-20). Discipleship making is the heartbeat in our church planting.

Our core values include world evangelization, systematic discipleship training and mobilization of the laity for ministry according to their talents and spiritual gifts.

We have organized and planned for the expansion of the Kingdom. Every person coming into the ministerial ranks of the EMC partakes in an Ministry Assessment Profile System (MAPS). This program evaluates whether the individual will be a local pastor, a church planter, or a cross cultural missionary. Our conferences have streams of funding designated for the planting of new churches. We not only plan, we plant churches.