Traditionally, United Methodist emphasize the following:

• We hold in common with all Christians a faith in the mystery of salvation in and through Jesus Christ.
• We share the Christian belief that God's redemptive love is realized in human life by the activity of the Holy Spirit, both in personal experience adn in the community of believers.
• We understand ourselves to be part of Christ's universal church when by adoration, proclamation, and service we become conformed to Christ.
• With other Christians, we recognize that the reign of God is both a present and future reality.
• We share with many Christian communions a recognition of the authority of Scripture in matters of faith, the confession that our justification as sinners is by grace through faith, adn the sober realization that the church is in need of continual reformation and renewal.
• We are distinctly Wesleyan in our heritage.  Meaning, certain tenets of our faith stem from the Wesleyan revival of the 18th century. For instance, we believe from the moment we are born, God is working to reconcile us back to Himself and will not cease until we die.