Asbury Methodist Church of Baton Rouge a Global Methodist Congregation

HELP US GROW ASBURY METHODIST

Do you have teaching, preaching, musical, organizational, Bible Study leadership skills or any other skill you feel would help grow Asbury?

DO YOU LOVE JESUS?

We need your help to establish and grow a vibrant, Bible based church full of committed Christians

DO YOU WANT TO GROW IN YOUR SPIRITUAL LIFE

Do you feel lost or left out from a previous worship experience? We use one text for all our worship and teaching: The Holy Bible. Prayer is also at the center of what we do.

BIBLE STUDY

We want to build Asbury into a teaching church where a heavy focus on Bible Study will always be present.

ALL ARE WELCOME

Although we will base our teaching on traditional Wesleyan principals all denominations and all people seeking God and his Son Jesus Christ are welcome

Our Mission

Our Mission, as a Global Methodist Church, is to make disciples of Jesus Christ who worship passionately, love extravagantly, and witness boldly.

In our worship, we desire to surrender to and be fully devoted to one God—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We are passionate about what is important to God.

Jesus calls those who follow Him to love God wholeheartedly and love their neighbors as themselves. Our desire is to demonstrate to the world the extravagant love of God in the person of Jesus Christ.

We have been entrusted with a lifesaving and transforming message that we must share with others. Our witness is bold, compelling and fearless. Our mission advances when individuals become disciples of Jesus Christ and join God’s mission to make more disciples.

Statement of Moral Principles

Given our current time and context, we highlight and affirm the following moral principles, acknowledging that other moral principles merit our further attention.

Scripture teaches that men and women are of equal value in the eyes of God. Accordingly, the church should treat women and men equally. We believe that both women and men are called to and gifted for ordained and licensed ministry, and both genders are able to hold any role of leadership within the Global Methodist Church

We believe that all persons are of sacred worth. Therefore, we gladly welcome all who seek to grow in their relationship with God to attend worship services and participate in the church’s ministries. No person shall be disqualified from becoming a member of a local congregation, holding a leadership position in the church, or becoming an ordained or licensed clergy based on race, color, nationality, national origin, marital status, or economic condition.

The Global Methodist church specifically renounces all racial and ethnic discrimination and commits itself to work toward full racial and ethnic equality in the church and in society.

We believe marriage and sexual intimacy are good gifts from God. In keeping with Christian teaching through the ages and throughout the Church universal, we believe that marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive union. We believe that God intends faithfulness in marriage and celibacy in singleness.

We believe that every person must be afforded compassion, love, kindness, respect, and dignity. Hateful and harassing behavior or attitudes directed toward any individual or group are to be repudiated and are not in accord with Scripture nor the doctrines of the Global Methodist Church

STATEMENT OF FAITH

We affirm classical Wesleyan doctrine and the historic faith, which the church has used to define the parameters of Christian teaching. Doctrine, properly understood, unifies the church and gives direction to its life. All congregational, clergy, and lay members of the Global Methodist Church affirm the following Doctrinal Standards:

The Nicene Creed (AD 381) –

http://anglicansonline.org/basics/nicene.html

The Articles of Religion of the Methodist Church (AD 1808) –

http://www.umc.org/.../the-articles-of-religion-of-the...

The Confession of Faith of the Evangelical United Brethren Church (AD 1963) –

https://www.umc.org/en/content/confession-of-faith

The Standard Sermons of John Wesley –

http://wesley.nnu.edu/.../the-sermons-of-john-wesley-the.../

The Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament by John Wesley (1755) –

http://wesley.nnu.edu/joh.../john-wesleys-notes-on-the-bible

The General Rules of The Methodist Church (1868) –

http://www.umc.org/.../general-rules-of-the-methodist-churchIf c global methodist congregation