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As a mainline protestant denomination, at our core we believe that Jesus Christ forms the center of our experience with God. United Methodists profess the historic Christian faith in God; that is is through Jesus Christ that we can be made right with God and know him.
As part of the expression of our faith in Jesus Christ, the church has a long and steady history of being involved in social justice issues, on a global level. It's members have often taken bold and significant roles in leading change and highlighting injustice. An example of this is a part of our Social Principle document:
The World Community
God’s world is one world. The unity now
being thrust upon us by technological revolution has far outrun our
moral and spiritual capacity to achieve a stable world. The enforced
unity of humanity, increasingly evident on all levels of life, presents
the Church as well as all people with problems that will not wait for
answer: injustice, war, exploitation, privilege, population,
international ecological crisis, proliferation of arsenals of nuclear
weapons, development of transnational business organizations that
operate beyond the effective control of any governmental structure, and
the increase of tyranny in all its forms. This generation must find
viable answers to these and related questions if humanity is to
continue on this earth. We commit ourselves as a Church to the
achievement of a world community that is a fellowship of persons who
honestly love one another. We pledge ourselves to seek the meaning of
the gospel in all issues that divide people and threaten the growth of
world community.
An in depth overview of what we believe (both the shared and distinctives of our church) can be found here.
 What We Believe
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