“Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike?
At Country Club, we believe faith is more than agreeing with the right ideas. It is learning to trust God, follow Jesus, and become people whose lives increasingly reflect the love of God and neighbor.
We are part of the United Methodist Church and share the historic Christian faith. We also stand within the Wesleyan tradition, which has always placed particular emphasis on grace, holy living, thoughtful faith, and love put into practice.
We are part of the United Methodist Church and share the historic Christian faith. We also stand within the Wesleyan tradition, which has always placed particular emphasis on grace, holy living, thoughtful faith, and love put into practice.
Grace Comes First
Before we search for God, God is already reaching toward us.
United Methodists call this grace: God’s freely given love at work in us and in the world. Grace cannot be earned, achieved, or deserved. It meets us before we recognize it, welcomes us into a restored relationship with God, and continues working within us as we grow.
John Wesley, founder of the Methodist movement, described this progression of grace as prevenient grace, justifying grace, and sanctifying grace. Different words, but one continuing work of God: seeking us, restoring us, and forming us in love.
United Methodists call this grace: God’s freely given love at work in us and in the world. Grace cannot be earned, achieved, or deserved. It meets us before we recognize it, welcomes us into a restored relationship with God, and continues working within us as we grow.
John Wesley, founder of the Methodist movement, described this progression of grace as prevenient grace, justifying grace, and sanctifying grace. Different words, but one continuing work of God: seeking us, restoring us, and forming us in love.
Jesus is at the Center
Christians believe God is revealed most fully in Jesus Christ.
In Jesus we see what God is like and what fully human life can become. Through his life, teaching, death, and resurrection, Jesus announces and embodies the good news of God’s kingdom, reconciles us to God, breaks the power of sin and death, and invites us into a new way of life.
Following Jesus means more than believing things about him. We seek to be with Jesus, become like Jesus, and live as Jesus lived.
In Jesus we see what God is like and what fully human life can become. Through his life, teaching, death, and resurrection, Jesus announces and embodies the good news of God’s kingdom, reconciles us to God, breaks the power of sin and death, and invites us into a new way of life.
Following Jesus means more than believing things about him. We seek to be with Jesus, become like Jesus, and live as Jesus lived.
Scripture Forms Us
The Bible is the primary source of our faith and the foundational witness through which we encounter the story of God and God’s people.
United Methodists also recognize that none of us reads Scripture without interpretation. We listen alongside the wisdom of Christian tradition, use the reason God has given us, and pay attention to the ways God’s grace is experienced in our lives and in the world.
That means questions are welcome here. Faithfulness does not require shutting down curiosity. We study, wrestle, listen, learn, and trust the Holy Spirit to keep forming us through it all.
United Methodists also recognize that none of us reads Scripture without interpretation. We listen alongside the wisdom of Christian tradition, use the reason God has given us, and pay attention to the ways God’s grace is experienced in our lives and in the world.
That means questions are welcome here. Faithfulness does not require shutting down curiosity. We study, wrestle, listen, learn, and trust the Holy Spirit to keep forming us through it all.
The Holy Spirit is Still at Work
God has not stopped creating, speaking, healing, challenging, or transforming.
The Holy Spirit awakens us to grace, draws us toward Jesus, gives gifts for the good of others, and works within us so that love becomes more deeply rooted in who we are.
Christian formation is therefore not simply self-improvement. It is our active participation in what God is already doing within us and among us.
The Holy Spirit awakens us to grace, draws us toward Jesus, gives gifts for the good of others, and works within us so that love becomes more deeply rooted in who we are.
Christian formation is therefore not simply self-improvement. It is our active participation in what God is already doing within us and among us.
We are Better Together
Christian faith was never intended to be a solo project.
The Church is a community shaped by the grace of God and sent to embody the love of Jesus in the world. Together we worship, pray, study Scripture, share Communion, baptize, serve, forgive, encourage one another, and practice becoming people of love.
United Methodists call practices like these “means of grace,” ordinary ways we make ourselves available to the transforming work of God.
The Church is a community shaped by the grace of God and sent to embody the love of Jesus in the world. Together we worship, pray, study Scripture, share Communion, baptize, serve, forgive, encourage one another, and practice becoming people of love.
United Methodists call practices like these “means of grace,” ordinary ways we make ourselves available to the transforming work of God.
Love Takes Shape in the World
For John Wesley, holiness was inseparable from love.
Growing closer to God should also make us more attentive to our neighbors, more compassionate toward people who suffer, more willing to seek justice, more generous with what we have, and more committed to the flourishing of God’s creation.
Faith becomes visible in how we live.
That is why we talk so much about practicing the love of Jesus. We believe God’s grace changes people, and changed people participate in God’s work of healing and renewing the world.
Growing closer to God should also make us more attentive to our neighbors, more compassionate toward people who suffer, more willing to seek justice, more generous with what we have, and more committed to the flourishing of God’s creation.
Faith becomes visible in how we live.
That is why we talk so much about practicing the love of Jesus. We believe God’s grace changes people, and changed people participate in God’s work of healing and renewing the world.
Our Hope is Resurrection
At the heart of Christian faith is the astonishing claim that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead.
Because Christ is risen, sin and death do not have the final word. We look toward the fulfillment of God’s kingdom, the resurrection of the dead, and the restoration of creation.
Christian hope is therefore larger than escaping this world someday. It is trust that God is making all things new, and an invitation to begin living within that new creation now.
Because Christ is risen, sin and death do not have the final word. We look toward the fulfillment of God’s kingdom, the resurrection of the dead, and the restoration of creation.
Christian hope is therefore larger than escaping this world someday. It is trust that God is making all things new, and an invitation to begin living within that new creation now.
All Means All
Country Club United Methodist Church welcomes and affirms into the full life and ministry of our church people of every race, ethnicity, age, faith history, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, family configuration, physical ability, mental ability, educational status, and economic status.
We celebrate the gifts God gives through the diversity of God’s people and are proud to be a Reconciling Congregation.
We celebrate the gifts God gives through the diversity of God’s people and are proud to be a Reconciling Congregation.
Still Exploring?
Good.
You do not need to have every question answered before you begin exploring faith with us. Some of us have believed for decades. Some are rebuilding faith after difficult experiences. Some are still deciding what they believe.
There is room here to ask questions, practice faith, and take the next faithful step.
As part of the worldwide United Methodist Church, our beliefs are rooted in the historic Christian faith and the Wesleyan tradition. You can explore United Methodist teaching more deeply through UMC.org, or reach out to us if there is something you would like to talk about.
You do not need to have every question answered before you begin exploring faith with us. Some of us have believed for decades. Some are rebuilding faith after difficult experiences. Some are still deciding what they believe.
There is room here to ask questions, practice faith, and take the next faithful step.
As part of the worldwide United Methodist Church, our beliefs are rooted in the historic Christian faith and the Wesleyan tradition. You can explore United Methodist teaching more deeply through UMC.org, or reach out to us if there is something you would like to talk about.