What Does Central UMC Believe?

"For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." (Romans 10:9-11)

The people of Central United Methodist Church believe that God is present, active, and involved.

  • We believe that God is among us, comforting us where we need comfort and making us uncomfortable where we need discomfort.
  • We believe that God is known most clearly in the person of Jesus Christ and that Jesus calls us to follow him as disciples.
  • We believe that all who follow Christ are gifted by the Holy Spirit for ministry of various kinds.
  • We believe that you are created in God’s image and deserve respect truth, and love, while asserting that all need God’s grace.
  • We believe that is vitally important to practice the Christian faith within an active community of faith.

"He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live to please themselves. Instead, they will live to please Christ, who died and was raised for them." 2 Corinthians 5:15