Denomination: Methodist Church
Welcome to the site of Norton Methodist Church
North Avenue, Letchworth, SG6 1DH
Sunday Worship is 9:30am
A place to worship and experience God together as a family and to meet together as a community.
Everyone is always welcome to join us for any of our services and activities.
We look forward to meeting you!
A BACKGROUND TO OUR BELIEFS
Methodists and other Christians remember John Wesley’s heart-warming experience of God in a church on Aldersgate Street. Wesley was already a priest in the Church of England and had travelled to America as a missionary, which had not gone at all well. On the voyage there his ship was caught up in a storm and he was impressed by the calm faith of a group of Moravian Christians, who prayed and sang and showed no fear amidst such danger.
Not long afterwards he felt led, reluctantly, to attend worship at a Moravian church on Aldersgate Street in London. Despite his reluctance, it was during this service he felt his “heart strangely warmed” – he experienced God’s love in a most personal and life-giving way. Until then he had known God in his mind but not in his heart, now he understood the value of a personal experience of God that would bring assurance to the believer. Paul’s words in verse 5 point us all to the possibility of God pouring love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit. Wesley, who began the Methodist movement, was convinced that all people could know the love of God. This is clear through the “Four alls” that are still quoted by Methodist people today.
*All people need to be saved.
*All people can be saved.
*All people can know they are saved.
*All people can be saved to the uttermost.
Paul has something similar to say in Romans, making it clear that Jesus did not die just for those who were righteous but that he “died for the ungodly” (v. 6). All people fall within the scope of God’s love and Christ’s saving action, and all people can experience this for themselves as God’s love fills their hearts with love through the Holy Spirit.
North Avenue, Letchworth, SG6 1DH
Sunday Worship is 9:30am
A place to worship and experience God together as a family and to meet together as a community.
Everyone is always welcome to join us for any of our services and activities.
We look forward to meeting you!
A BACKGROUND TO OUR BELIEFS
Methodists and other Christians remember John Wesley’s heart-warming experience of God in a church on Aldersgate Street. Wesley was already a priest in the Church of England and had travelled to America as a missionary, which had not gone at all well. On the voyage there his ship was caught up in a storm and he was impressed by the calm faith of a group of Moravian Christians, who prayed and sang and showed no fear amidst such danger.
Not long afterwards he felt led, reluctantly, to attend worship at a Moravian church on Aldersgate Street in London. Despite his reluctance, it was during this service he felt his “heart strangely warmed” – he experienced God’s love in a most personal and life-giving way. Until then he had known God in his mind but not in his heart, now he understood the value of a personal experience of God that would bring assurance to the believer. Paul’s words in verse 5 point us all to the possibility of God pouring love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit. Wesley, who began the Methodist movement, was convinced that all people could know the love of God. This is clear through the “Four alls” that are still quoted by Methodist people today.
*All people need to be saved.
*All people can be saved.
*All people can know they are saved.
*All people can be saved to the uttermost.
Paul has something similar to say in Romans, making it clear that Jesus did not die just for those who were righteous but that he “died for the ungodly” (v. 6). All people fall within the scope of God’s love and Christ’s saving action, and all people can experience this for themselves as God’s love fills their hearts with love through the Holy Spirit.
