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Do not fill this in! ===Methodism=== In the [[Methodist]] tradition (inclusive of the [[holiness movement]]), [[Baptism_with_the_Holy_Spirit#Methodist_and_Holiness_Christianity|baptism with the Holy Spirit]] traditionally refers to the [[second work of grace]] subsequent to the [[born again#Methodism|New Birth]] and is called [[entire sanctification]], in which [[original sin]] is removed and the person is made perfect in love ([[Christian perfection]]).<ref name="UMC2012">{{Cite web |date=2012 |title=Guidelines: The UMC and the Charismatic Movement |url=http://www.umc.org/what-we-believe/guidelines-the-umc-and-the-charismatic-movement |access-date=July 31, 2019 |publisher=[[The United Methodist Church]] |quote=The Methodists were also first to coin the phrase baptism of the Holy Spirit as applied to a second and sanctifying grace (experience) of God. (Cf. John Fletcher of Madeley, Methodism's earliest formal theologian.) The Methodists meant by their "baptism" something different from the Pentecostals, but the view that this is an experience of grace separate from and after salvation was the same. |archive-date=July 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190731112659/http://www.umc.org/what-we-believe/guidelines-the-umc-and-the-charismatic-movement |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Stokes1998">{{Cite book |last=Stokes |first=Mack B. |title=Major United Methodist Beliefs |publisher=Abingdon Press |year=1998 |isbn=9780687082124 |page=95}}</ref> Entire sanctification, which may be received instantaneously or gradually, "cleanses the heart of the recipient from all sin (I John 1:7, 9; Acts 15:8, 9), sets him apart and endows him with power for the accomplishment of all to which he is called (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:8)."<ref name="Buschart2009">{{Cite book |last=Buschart |first=W. David |title=Exploring Protestant Traditions |date=August 20, 2009 |publisher=InterVarsity Press |isbn=9780830875146 |page=194 }}</ref><ref name="PHC2000">{{Cite web |date=December 15, 2000 |title=Doctrine |url=http://www.pilgrimholinesschurch.org/doctrine.htm |access-date=May 31, 2018 |publisher=Pilgrim Holiness Church of New York, Inc. |archive-date=May 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180502115615/http://www.pilgrimholinesschurch.org/doctrine.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> When the Methodist movement was initiated, "many individuals in London, Oxford and Bristol reported supernatural healings, visions, dreams, spiritual impressions, power in evangelizing, [and] extraordinary bestowments of wisdom".<ref name="Živadinović2015" /> [[John Wesley]], the founder of Methodism, "firmly maintained that the Spiritual gifts are a natural consequence of genuine holiness and dwelling of God's Spirit in a man."<ref name="Živadinović2015" /> As such, Methodist Churches hold to the theological position of [[continuationism]].<ref name="Živadinović2015">{{Cite journal |last=Živadinović |first=Dojcin |year=2015 |title=Wesley and Charisma: An Analysis of John Wesley's View of Spiritual Gifts |journal=Andrews University Seminary Student Journal |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=53–71}}</ref> With its history of promoting holiness and experiential faith, many Methodist congregations now engage in charismatic worship since the arrival of the charismatic movement to Methodism, though other Methodist [[connexionalism|connexions]] and their congregations eschew it.<ref name="BlumhoferSpittler1999">{{Cite book |last1=Blumhofer |first1=Edith Waldvogel |title=Pentecostal Currents in American Protestantism |last2=Spittler |first2=Russell P. |last3=Wacker |first3=Grant A. |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=1999 |isbn=9780252067563 |page=171}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1989 |title=Tongues Speaking: Study Commission On Doctrine |url=https://scod.fmcusa.org/tongues-speaking/ |publisher=[[Free Methodist Church]] |access-date=March 22, 2021 |archive-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923005425/https://scod.fmcusa.org/tongues-speaking/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In the latter case, the Pentecostal doctrine of a third work of grace accompanied by [[glossolalia]] is condemned by some connexions in the Methodist tradition, such as the [[Pilgrim Holiness Church]], which teaches that the state of [[Christian perfection]] in which a person is perfect in love is the goal for humans:<ref name="PHC2000" /> {{quotation|Those who teach that some special phenomena such as speaking with unknown tongues constitutes a witness to the Baptism with the Spirit expose themselves and their hearers to peril of dangerous fanaticism. Perhaps no wiser counsel has been given on this matter then that of John Wesley who wrote long before the modern "tongues" movement appeared: "The grounds of a thousand mistakes is the not considering, deeply that love is the highest gift of God - humble, gentle, patient love - that all visions, revelation, manifestations whatsoever are little things compared to love. It were well you should be thoroughly sensible of this. The heaven of heavens is love. There is nothing higher in religion; there is in effect, nothing else. If you look for anything but more love you are looking wide of the mark, you are getting out of the royal way. And when you are asking others, "Have you received this or that blessing," if you mean anything but more love you, you mean wrong; you are leading them out of the way, and putting them upon a false scent. Settle it then in your heart, that from the moment God has saved you from all sin, you are to aim at nothing but more of that love described in the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians. You can go no higher than this till you are carried into Abraham's bosom." ―Doctrine, [[Pilgrim Holiness Church]]<ref name="PHC2000" />}} Charismatic Methodists in the United States allied with the [[Confessing Movement#Methodist|Good News]] caucus and those in Great Britain have been supported by the Lay Witness Movement,<ref>Methodist Evangelicals Together, [http://www.methodistevangelicals.org.uk/resources/lay-witness-movement Lay Witness Movement] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204171136/http://www.methodistevangelicals.org.uk/resources/lay-witness-movement |date=December 4, 2017 }}. Retrieved July 19, 2017</ref> which works with Methodist Evangelicals Together.<ref name="BlumhoferSpittler1999" /> In the [[United Methodist Church]], the charismatic apostolate Aldersgate Renewal Ministries was formed "to pray and work together for the renewal of the church by the power of the Holy Spirit".<ref name="RicheyRowe2012">{{Cite book |last1=Richey |first1=Russell E. |title=American Methodism: A Compact History |last2=Rowe |first2=Kenneth E. |last3=Schmidt |first3=Jeanne Miller |date=October 1, 2012 |publisher=Abingdon Press |isbn=9781426765179 |page=232}}</ref> It runs events at local United Methodist churches, as well as the Methodist School for Supernatural Ministry.<ref name="RicheyRowe2012" /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. 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