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¶610.2        Awakening to God                                                                                 The Scriptures teach that by nature, humans […]

¶610.1        God’s Gracious Initiative for Salvation In love God has graciously provided for the salvation of all humankind. God is love (I John 4:8-10). Jesus, the eternal Son of God, was sent by the Father as an expression of God’s love for the world (John 3:16). The cross shows the

¶610  THE WAY OF SALVATION This section, on the way of salvation, describes the Free Methodist standard of teaching on the biblical doctrine of salvation. These paragraphs are an elaboration of what is affirmed in the Articles of Religion, in their statements on Humankind (¶111-113) and Salvation (¶114-120). They represent

¶600     THE GOAL OF THE CHRISTIAN JOURNEY The Scriptures affirm that God’s purpose for humanity, from before creation, was that we should “be holy and blameless before him in love” (Ephesians 1:3-4; I Timothy 2:4).  God’s purpose was far from empty.  For, from before creation, his purpose had reality

¶ 540 PROVISIONAL GENERAL CONFERENCE Requirements for forming a provisional General conference are found in ¶221 and those for a general conference in ¶222. To prepare for a new provisional general conference, the Bishop of the Free Methodist Church in Canada shall form a provisional general conference task force of

¶530 ANNUAL CONFERENCES When a provisional annual conference has fulfilled the following requirements and has reached the stage where it has a Manual that has been approved by the Board of Administration of the Free Methodist Church in Canada and has demonstrated that it is able to operate satisfactorily under

¶520 PROVISIONAL ANNUAL CONFERENCES The Board of Administration of the FMCIC upon the recommendation of the bishop and the director of global ministries, may approve the formation of a provisional annual conference from a mission district, when it has adopted The Manual of the FMCIC in principle, has filed the

¶518 MOVABLE AND IMMOVABLE PROPERTY All movable and immovable property of the mission district is owned and managed by the Trust known as the Free Methodist Church. The trustees of the Trust are the following members of the board of administration: chair, vice chair, secretary, treasurer.  The presiding bishop is

¶517 FUNDING Each church in The Free Methodist Church in <<insert name of country>> shall contribute XX% of its general operating income to fund the operations of the Mission District. For this purpose (only) the local church general operating income is defined to include all donations to the local society,