Methodists Ready to Merge with Church of England

London, UK - The Methodist Church is prepared to be absorbed by the
Church of England if that is the price of unity, Britain’s most senior
Methodist said yesterday.

The Rev David Gamble, president of the Methodist Conference, told the
General Synod of the Church of England, meeting at Church House,
Westminster: “We are prepared to go out of existence, not because we
are declining or failing in mission, but for the sake of mission.”
Methodists were “prepared to be changed and even to cease having a
separate existence as a Church” if that served the needs of the
Kingdom of God. . . The founder of Methodism, John Wesley (1703-1791),
was a Church of England clergyman and never intended to start a
denomination.

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