How have you experienced the connection of the United Methodist Church in your own faith journey and/or in your congregation?
Read through Paragraph 203 of the 2016 Discipline, and reflect on the meaning of being connectional as defined in this paragraph.
Relation to the Wider Church—The local church is a connectional society of persons who have been baptized, have professed their faith in Christ, and have assumed the vows of membership in The United Methodist Church. They gather in fellowship to hear the Word of God, receive the sacraments, praise and worship the triune God, and carry forward the work that Christ has committed to his church. Such a society of believers, being within The United Methodist Church and subject to its Discipline, is also an inherent part of the church universal, which is composed of all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and which in the Apostles’ Creed we declare to be the holy catholic church.
2016 Book of Discipline, paragraph 203
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