Talk:Free Methodist Church

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I'm planning on a major revision to this page, with much more detail. Alangdon86 06:11, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

The following statement from this entry conflicts with details in the entry for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South:

"They also opposed slavery and supported freedom for all slaves in the United States, while many Methodists in the South at that time did not actively oppose slavery."

According to the entry for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South the southern conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church seceded to defend slavery and form the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1844. The Methodist Episcopal Church continued to oppose the institution of slavery. Why then would slavery be a cause for the Free Methodists to secede from the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1860?

I believe that the Free Methodist Church organizers were also concerned with pew rent and some theological issues that the MEC was not concerned with. I think that the FMC wanted a more aggressive anti-slavery policy than the MEC did. KitHutch 03:13, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] References and external links

This article needs more real references, not just my footnoting, and more external links to thing like the fmc website. Please contribute whenever possible. Aepoutre 00:15, 9 August 2007 (UTC)