While Methodists had gathered together in worship and been organized by clergy in Dawson County Texas since 1904, First Methodist Lamesa was founded with official membership roles in 1906.
Long before that, the original Methodist Church was birthed at a time in 18th century England when the established church had lost its way. A group of leaders had a desire to see a pure expression of the church like that reflected in the book of Acts and in the first 300 years of the early church, and so began to meet and pray. Out of one of those prayer meetings a major revival was birthed that led to the movement that eventually became the Methodist Church.
The movement came to be known for their emphasis on preaching the need to be “born again” and growing in that experience through bible study, prayer, meeting with other believers, participating in the life of the church, and doing good works.
We believe that through the faithful practice of these disciplines, God can make us who we were originally intended to be and do everything we are called by God to do.
In the very first Methodist Conference of 1744 it officially recorded the purpose of the people and preachers called Methodists:
“Not to form any new sect; but to reform the nation, particularly the Church; and to spread scriptural holiness over the land.”
Methodist churches follow what are called the Three General Rules. The General Rules provide a helpful summation of the kind of intentional discipleship which marked early Methodism, summed up in three simple rubrics:
Do no harm
Do good to all
Stay connected to the sacramental and devotional life of the church.
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