Christian Church

==Methodist tradition==
[[File:Camp meeting of the Methodists in N. America J. Milbert del M. Dubourg sculp (cropped).jpg|thumb|300px|Methodist preachers are known for promulgating the doctrines of the [[Born again#Methodism|new birth]] and [[entire sanctification]] to the public at events such as [[tent revival]]s, [[brush arbor revival]]s, and [[camp meeting]]s, which they believe is the reason that God raised them up into existence.<ref name="Gibson"/>]]
[[Methodist]]s affirm belief in "the one true Church, Apostolic and Universal", viewing their churches as constituting a "privileged branch of this true church".<ref name="Wesley1863">{{cite book|last=Newton|first=William F. |title=The Magazine of the Wesleyan Methodist Church|year=1863|publisher=J. Fry & Company|language=en|page=673}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.umc.org/who-we-are/vatican-stance-nothing-new-say-church-leader|title=Vatican stance "nothing new" say church leader|last=Bloom|first=Linda|date=20 July 2007|publisher=The United Methodist Church|language=en|access-date=10 June 2018|archive-date=31 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531215408/http://www.umc.org/who-we-are/vatican-stance-nothing-new-say-church-leader|url-status=dead}}</ref> With regard to the position of Methodism within [[Christendom]], the founder of the movement "John Wesley once noted that what God had achieved in the development of Methodism was no mere human endeavor but the work of God. As such it would be preserved by God so long as history remained."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://peopleneedjesus.net/2016/08/25/the-birth-pangs-of-united-methodism-as-a-unique-global-orthodox-denomination/|author=William J. Abraham|title=The Birth Pangs of United Methodism as a Unique, Global, Orthodox Denomination|date=25 August 2016|language=en|access-date=30 April 2017|author-link=William J. Abraham}}</ref> Calling it "the grand depositum" of the Methodist faith, Wesley specifically taught that the propagation of the doctrine of [[entire sanctification]] was the reason that God raised up the Methodists in the world.<ref name="DaviesGeorge2017">{{cite book|last1=Davies|first1=Rupert E.|last2=George|first2=A. Raymond|last3=Rupp|first3=Gordon|title=A History of the Methodist Church in Great Britain, Volume Three|date=14 June 2017|publisher=Wipf & Stock Publishers|language=en|isbn=9781532630507|page=225}}</ref><ref name="Gibson">{{cite web|url=https://ucmpage.org/sgca/wesley01.htm|title=Wesleyan Heritage Series: Entire Sanctification|last=Gibson|first=James|publisher=South Georgia Confessing Association|language=en|access-date=30 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180529053529/http://ucmpage.org/sgca/wesley01.htm|archive-date=29 May 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>