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Uploaded by on Oct 24, 2006

Rev Steve Petty traces the journey of Methodism from the Wesleys through the present day.

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  • I converted from Methodism to Catholicism..

    My parents made me hate methodism, such ignorant people. Im gay and the Catholic Church is more accepting to me.

    There are only 12 million methodists in the world. There are over a Billion catholics in the world.

    Methodism to me is like Mormanism. It was started by a man less then 400 years ago compared to the catholic church started 2,000 years ago.

    Never again.

  • I'm sorry you had a negative experience with the Methodist Church. I can assure you that there are many Methodist churches who are more then welcoming to members of the GLBT community. No church is perfect, and individual congregations vary on their viewpoints in many areas.

  • ummm... where did the torture talk come from? I don't seem to remember that in Methodist history. In fact, as you can see from some of our other videos, we're very active in helping the Native American community, not forced conversion.

  • Without asking him directly, I believe that Steve felt it was better to leave out this part, rather than have to explain the complicated nature of the church's official founding (Wesley wasn't a fan of starting a new church, and technically speaking he ordained Coke and Asbury "superintendents," not bishops. Then again, he might have just forgot.

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  • It's different in some aspects such as prayers and they don't have private confession with their pastor, however, I did watch a video from one Methodist Church that revealed they do believe in the real presence of Christ in their Eucharist and wine. They also believe as Catholics do in doing good for others. However, the Roman Catholics and Methodists are totally alike when it comes to their love of God. I am a Catholic and I know MANY Methodists whom I have great respect for and love greatly.

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  • omg thanks so much for posting this because i needed an informational video about methodist people and the spread of methodism and this helped so freaking much!!!

  • Anyone knows why John Wesley started the Methodist church and what did he say about it?

  • a lot of "conversion " techniques were pulling up fingernails and torture. my savage ancestors the native americans didnt need the white mans God and still dont. Great spirit dont need blood or sacrifice.

  • Iam a methodist and a member of the united methodist youth fellowship and I love listening to bible stories its because I'm a methodist...lol..

  • Great video.Always enjoy listening to the story of the Wesley's :-)

  • Um i was always curius about this, what do methodist believe in? How is it diffrent from catholic religion?

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