This is the doctrine that United Methodists have stood upon and passed on through church,
through families, and to the world for over 200 years.
These faith statements are unchanged - they will REMAIN unchanged - to direct our Christian witness.

The summation of what we as United Methodists believe and have stood upon and passed through our church, through families, and to the world for hundreds of years, the traditional tenets of our Christian faith are summed up in the Nicene Creed:

We believe in One God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth,
and of all things visible and invisible,
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God,
begotten of the Father before all ages,
Light of Light, True God of True God, Begotten, not made,
consubstantial with the Father; by whom all things were made;
Who for us and for our salvation, came down from Heaven,
and was made incarnate by the Holy Spirit and of the Virgin Mary, and became man;
For our sake He was crucified under Pontius Pilate, suffered death and was buried,
and on the third day he rose again, in accordance with the Scriptures,
and ascended into Heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father;
From there He will come again in glory to judge; His Kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son;
Who with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets.
We believe in one Holy, Universal, and Apostolic Church,
​we acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins;
and we look forward to the Resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.
Amen.​