Not surprisingly, early church writings include "Rules of the Band Societies" and the doctrinal "Twenty-Five Articles of Religion," stressing stiff churchmanship and the more agreeable belief of salvation by faith alone.
This church's founder first led bodies of small "bands" that shared secrets and rebuked one another as unnecessary. Not surprisingly, early church writings include "Rules of the Band Societies" and the doctrinal "Twenty-Five Articles of Religion," stressing stiff churchmanship and the more agreeable belief of salvation by faith alone. One of its first American societies was located in Pipe Creek, Maryland with Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke as the first American bishops, and by the mid 1800s it had more members than any other denomination. For ten points, identify this group whose name was born in ridicule of the rigid ritualism of its original Oxford leader, John Wesley.
This church's founder first led bodies of small "bands" that shared secrets and rebuked one another as unnecessary.
Methodists (accept word forms)