“Know Christ and Make Him Known”

Our Mission

Our mission at Pendleton Methodist Church is to
“Know Christ and Make Him Known”

Our church has adopted this mission statement not in an effort to make us distinctive, but to ground us in this fundamental base of all Christian faith.
All that we do as a church – worship, study, prayer, fellowship, mission, and outreach – is an outgrowth of this mission statement.

What We Believe

We are part of the Global Methodist Church movement. Our beliefs are rooted in Scripture, the
Old and New Testaments, and professed in the Creeds of the Church (Apostles’ & Nicene
Creed). Below you’ll find more information of what we believe.
God
We believe in one true, living, and holy God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven
and earth. God is infinite in power, wisdom, justice, goodness, and love. This God reveals
himself to be Trinity - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - distinct but inseparable, eternally
one in essence and power.
Jesus
We believe in Jesus Christ, both fully God and fully human. He is the eternal Son of God
and became human to redeem and reconcile the world to God through His life, death, and
resurrection (John 1:14; Colossians 1:19-20; Romans 5:8).
The Holy Spirit
We believe the Holy Spirit proceeds from and is one in being with the Father and the Son.
He convinces the world of sin and leads people to a faithful response to God. He
comforts and sustains believers for holy living and service (John 14:26; Acts 1:8;
Galatians 5:22-23).
Salvation
ThWe believe salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. It involves God’s
preventing, justifying, and sanctifying grace in our lives to restore the fallen image of
God within us (Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5; Romans 10:9).
“By grace we are saved through faith... not only from the guilt, but also from the power
of sin.” John Wesley, Sermon 1, “Salvation by Faith”)
Sacraments
We believe that sacraments are ordained and commanded by Christ. These are signs of
grace through which God works in us to change us. We find two sacraments in Scripture -
Sacrament and the Lord’s Supper.
The Lord’s Supper is a sacrament of God’s salvation through Jesus’ death on the cross.
When we participate in the Lord’s Supper, we receive God’s grace in a tangible, visible
way that signifies a deeper inward grace at work (1 Corinthians 11:23-24).
Baptism is a sacrament of grace, symbolizing our forgiveness, new birth, and initiation
into the Christian faith. Through baptism, we are united with Christ in His death and
resurrection, beginning a lifelong journey of discipleship. Whether for infants or
believers, baptism is a sign of God’s covenant
Scripture
We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God, revealing all that is necessary for
salvation and the Christian life (2 Timothy 3:16-17; Psalm 119:105; Hebrews 4:12). It is
made up of both the Old and New Testaments that demonstrate God’s creation of the
world and its subsequent sin and fall. Then God’s redemption of the world through Jesus
Christ and the birth of the Church to announce God’s new creation.
“I want to know one thing—the way to heaven... God himself has condescended to teach
the way... He hath written it down in a book. O give me that book!” - John Wesley
Purpose
We believe the Church is called to make disciples of Jesus Christ, serve others in love,
and bear witness to the Kingdom of God in word and deed (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 1:8;
Micah 6:8)
“You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent in this work.”  -
John Wesley, Instructions to Preachers
"I look upon all the world as my parish... that in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet,
right, and my bounden duty to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of
salvation." - John Wesley’s Journal, March 11, 1739

More about Global Methodists

We are members of the Global Methodist Church (denomination) and the Global
Methodist Church of South Carolina (conference). Check out more about this movement!
https://www.globalmethodist.org
www.gmcofsc.org