[PW] Re: Church Ritual?

[Douglas Eric Anderson]

FWIW, there are some Wesleyan churches in my area (NE Ohio/NW Pa.) who do
at least use the term "Methodist" in the names of their churches,
including one that is a member of a denomination known as "Allegheny
Wesleyan Methodist."  A friend of mine attends a church of this
denomination; the denomination's main web site can be found here:
http://www.awmchurch.org/

I asked him about this ritual; it was not anything he had encountered at
his church.

Some detailed information about the AWM rituals can be found here:
http://www.awmchurch.org/discipline/part6.htm .  I found no mention,
however, of anything resembling the ritual described in the original
question.

I also asked a former co-worker who is a minister at a nearby Spiritualist
church, because she had mentioned various "healing hands" rituals in their
worship, but this was not something that her church practices.

-- Doug A.


On Fri, October 20, 2006 10:16 am, Jones, Alison R. wrote:
> Yep - what she said - I grew up in the Wesleyan Church - and we never
> considered ourselves Methodist at all (but then I grew up in churches
> that had come from the Pilgrim Holiness side of the merger, so that
> might have been part of it as well, LOL)
>
> (And - I agree on the differences between the Wesleyans and the United
> Methodists - most Wesleyans would find the United Methodist Church to be
> very different... In style of worship, the Wesleyans are more similar to
> the Southern Baptist church, than to their fellow Wesleyan-Armenians the
> United Methodists!  So there's not too much chance of finding any
> Wesleyans who would consider themselves Methodist in any sense - and
> certainly not as an official stance)



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