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Eighteen accounts of what is real, each set out in its own terms and each with its own page.
All World Views Does God Exist?The Methodist and Wesleyan stream of the Christianity timeline.
Streams: All of Christianity Catholic Eastern Orthodox Oriental Orthodox Anglican Lutheran Reformed and Presbyterian Anabaptist Baptist Methodist and Wesleyan Restorationist Pentecostal and Charismatic Independent and Non-denominational
John and Charles Wesley and their companions form the Oxford society their critics nickname the Holy Club; its methodical discipline of prayer, fasting, and works of mercy gives the Methodist movement its name and its pattern.
John Wesley, at a meeting in Aldersgate Street, feels his heart 'strangely warmed'; the Methodist revival within the Church of England follows.
At the Lovely Lane chapel in Baltimore, American Methodists organize the Methodist Episcopal Church and elect Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury as superintendents; Methodism in America becomes a church of its own.
The General Conference's demand that Bishop James Andrew give up his enslaved household splits American Methodism into the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; the division lasts until 1939.
The World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh gathers the Protestant missionary movement and, in retrospect, opens the modern ecumenical movement.
The World Council of Churches constitutes itself at Amsterdam under the theme 'Man's Disorder and God's Design', joining the historic churches in one fellowship; Rome observing from outside.
The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren unite at Dallas to form the United Methodist Church, then the largest Protestant body in the United States; the same year its predecessor conferences abolish the racially segregated Central Jurisdiction.
The Global Methodist Church launches on May 1, 2022, receiving congregations leaving the United Methodist Church in the long dispute over doctrine and sexuality; the newest entry in the Methodist stream's long history.
