Christianity and the Gospel of Jesus

Christianity is currently the largest religious tradition in the world — and if you're studying this, you're part of a story that started roughly 2,000 years ago. The people who identify with Christianity are known as Christians. Many Christians identify with a specific branch, such as "Roman Catholic" or "United Methodist." Christians uphold the unique importance of Jesus. For Christians, Jesus is considered a human, the Son of God, and/or the living presence of God.

The Birthplace of Christianity

What's a Methodist?

John Wesley put it this way: "A Methodist is one who loves the Lord his God with all his heart, with all his soul, with all his mind, and with all his strength."

John Wesley was an ordained Anglican priest from England. At a prayer meeting in London in 1738, he had a powerful spiritual experience which inspired the rest of his teaching. Wesley described the moment this way:

"I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death."