At Ovilla United Methodist Church, our mission is the Great Commission—to “go and make disciples of Jesus Christ” (Matthew 28:19). Everything that is important for making disciples, we emphasize. We glorify God through missions, outreach, studying the scriptures, and evangelism through invitation and example.
We believe that beliefs are important, but that apart from living as followers of Jesus, claiming a set of beliefs rings hollow in the ears of the hurting and broken world we live in.
We believe in God, whom we know primarily in and through Jesus Christ. We believe in Jesus, who didn’t consider equality with God something to hold on to, but emptied himself and became human for us and for our redemption. We believe in the Holy Spirit. We believe the Bible is the authoritative rule of faith and practice. We affirm the traditional creeds of the Christian faith.
For more about the beliefs and history of the United Methodist Church, check here. Here are the Articles of Religion of our church. John Wesley is the founder of our particular branch of the tree of Christian Churches. Wesley was born in the 18th century and led a movement in England that many scholars agree saved Britain from the same kind of bloody revolution that France had during the same century. Wesley combined a deep pursuit of understanding the things of God with a tireless commitment to caring for the people most in need.
We believe that God is good and loving and has entrusted the message of reconciliation to us. We are therefore committed to learning, to loving, and to reaching those around us. We commit to living as Jesus’ disciples so we can invite others to come along with us, and therefore make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.
