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Sermon Notes 9-5-21
• 1767 • Lancaster, PA • “great meeting” • Philip Otterbein/Martin Boehm • “We are brothers!” • 1800 • Church of the United Brethren in Christ • 1889 • CHANGE... Allow “secret society” members to become church members. • controversy involved both doctrine and method of change • Bishop Milton Wright • 60 years = two ”U.B.” groups • smaller (more conservative) group is still known as United Brethren • larger (more liberal) group is now part of the United Methodist Church GOVERNANCE • Top Down > National Conferences (2 years) General Conference (4 years) • Bottom Up > Local churches have great autonomy in organization, worship, pastor, etc. However, each local church must sign a covenant (annually) to endorse the U. B. Confession of Faith and Core Values. DENOMINATIONS? • RELIGIONS... Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Shintoism, etc. • CHRISTIANITY (subgroups)... Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Protestant • PROTESTANT CHRISTIANTY (subgroups)... Mennonite, Baptist, U.B., Lutheran, etc.) Christian Protestant denominations have formed and folded for many reasons. Historically it has usually been a combination of theology and culture (language, geography, affinity, etc. MEMBERSHIP? Every true Christian is a “member” of the body of Christ (1 Cor. 12). But for purposes of identity and accountability, we choose to formalize/verbalize our commitment to one local church. This is not a negative statement about other churches. It is a positive statement about this church. This is analogous to marriage. AUTHORITY One of the distinctives of Protestant Christianity is the principle of “sola scriptura.” This is true for the U.B. church. We believe the ultimate authority to which we must submit is not church traditions or patriarch or papacy. It is the Bible, our Scripture, our Lord’s Word. -
FALL 2013 [email protected] 13 West Boehms Road, Willow Street, Pa., 17584
Apple Festival paints with colors of autumn Annual event is Saturday, Oct. 12. See Page 4 for article and photos Boehm’s Chapel Society FALL 2013 [email protected] 13 West Boehms Road, Willow Street, Pa., 17584 INSIDE ‘THE CONVERSION’ IN WOOD Chapel puts its legacy on parade Circuit rider is our theme in Willow Valley event. Page 2 The story of Eve Boehm The story of Martin Boehm Photo by Dolores Myers is well known, not so the story of his wife, Eve, and her Conestoga craftsman displays his woodcarving of Martin Boehm plowing his field. persecuted ancestors. Pages The carving marks the event in which Boehm fell to his knees in the furrows to seek 6-8. God’s grace. See article on Page 3. 2 FALL 2013 Boehm’s Chapel Society newsletter Boehm’s Chapel on parade Willow Valley Retirement Communities held a parade in late May and invited the Boehm’s Chapel Society to participate. We did and decided to use our circuit rider history as the theme. To do that, Chapel Society member Mike Rhineer, shown at right, saddled up his horse, put on Abe Sangrey’s hat, picked up a Bible, borrowed a coat from an Amish friend, and rode the parade route educating people on these early traveling evangelists. To reinforce that mes- sage, Society President Jim McCullough, below left, had sideboards made for his classic 1952 Dodge pickup truck (ac- tually younger than Jim) that proclaimed “Boehm’s Chapel: Keeping the faith of the circuit at their farm (now the Frey Vice President Marv Adams, rider since 1775.” The year 1775 was the year farm), just below the Chapel . -
Lets Look @ History & the Process of Elimination
Who started your Church? Lets look @ history & the process of Elimination Date, Origin, Founders of various churches NAME YEAR FOUNDER(S) ORIGIN ORTHODOX CHURCH 1054 (Britannica) Patriarch Bishop Photius Middle East National Churches Went into Schism (formal division) LUTHERAN 1517 (Britannica) Martin Luther (at least 20 groups) Germany ZWINGLIANS 1520’s (Britannica) Ulrich Zwingli Switzerland ANGLICAN 1534 (Britannica) King Henry VIII England CALVINIST 1555 (Britannica) John Calvin Switzerland PRESBYTERIAN 1560 (Britannica) John Knox (at least 10 groups) Scotland CONGREGATIONALIST 1582 (Britannica) Robert Brown England BAPTIST 1605 (Britannica) John Smith (at least 23 branches) Netherlands DUTCH REFORMED 1628 (Britannica) Michaelis Jones New York QUAKERS 1647 (H.of D. p.265) George Fox England METHODIST 1739 (Britannica) John & Charles Wesley (at least 19 groups) London UNITARIAN 1774 (Wikipedia) Theophilus Lindley London EPISCOPALIAN 1789 (Britannica) Samuel Seabury Philadelphia UNITED BRETHREN 1800 (H.of D p.205) Philip Otterbein & Martin Boehm MaryIand DISCIPLES OF CHRIST 1848 (Britannica) Thomas & Alexander Campbell Kentucky PLYMOUTH BRETHREN 1829 (H.of D. p.244-6) John Nelson Derby (at least 8 groups) England ADVENTIST 1830 (Adventist.org) William MiIler (at least 4 Branches) New Hampshire MORMONS (Church of Jesus 1830 (H.of D. p.165) Joseph Smith (at least 7 branches) New York Christ of Latter Day Saints SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST 1860 (H.of D. p.38) Ellen Gould White Michigan SALVATION ARMY 1865 (H.of D. p.275) William Booth London -
United Methodist Bishops Page 17 Historical Statement Page 25 Methodism in Northern Europe & Eurasia Page 37
THE NORTHERN EUROPE & EURASIA BOOK of DISCIPLINE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 2009 Copyright © 2009 The United Methodist Church in Northern Europe & Eurasia. All rights reserved. United Methodist churches and other official United Methodist bodies may reproduce up to 1,000 words from this publication, provided the following notice appears with the excerpted material: “From The Northern Europe & Eurasia Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church—2009. Copyright © 2009 by The United Method- ist Church in Northern Europe & Eurasia. Used by permission.” Requests for quotations that exceed 1,000 words should be addressed to the Bishop’s Office, Copenhagen. Scripture quotations, unless otherwise noted, are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. Name of the original edition: “The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church 2008”. Copyright © 2008 by The United Methodist Publishing House Adapted by the 2009 Northern Europe & Eurasia Central Conference in Strandby, Denmark. An asterisc (*) indicates an adaption in the paragraph or subparagraph made by the central conference. ISBN 82-8100-005-8 2 PREFACE TO THE NORTHERN EUROPE & EURASIA EDITION There is an ongoing conversation in our church internationally about the bound- aries for the adaptations of the Book of Discipline, which a central conference can make (See ¶ 543.7), and what principles it has to follow when editing the Ameri- can text (See ¶ 543.16). The Northern Europe and Eurasia Central Conference 2009 adopted the following principles. The examples show how they have been implemented in this edition. -
26 Repairing Episcopacy by Tracking That of Bishop Christian Newcomer Russell E. Richey from “Wir Sind Brüder!” to “Can W
Methodist History, 57:1 & 2 (October 2018 & January 2019) REPAIRING EPISCOPACY BY TRACKING THAT OF BISHOP CHRISTIAN NEWCOMER Russell E. Richey From “Wir sind Brüder!” to “Can We become Brothers?” We invited our beloved Brother Newcomer to a seat in our conference as your messenger, and he is doubly dear to us as the messenger of such joyful tidings of brotherly love from you. “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of all the messengers of mercy and love and peace and good will.[”]1 So the 1811 Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) Baltimore Conference received Christian Newcomer. The powerhouse, dominant, and controlling conference—the Vatican of early Methodism— imbedded this tribute within its formal response to an overture concerning union between the two church- es, an overture which Newcomer had conveyed. For the next three years, the Baltimore Minutes recognized Newcomer’s ambassadorial role and bur- dened him with responses to carry back. He had functioned in both mes- sage-bearing regards as well in the 1809 and 1810 United Brethren (UB) overtures, though, the Methodist Minutes do not so indicate. The encoun- ter for 1813—though it proved to be the last hopeful exchange—effectively ended the Newcomer-led unitive efforts. He described the 1813 events in some detail in his journal:2 [August] 25th—I preached at old Mr. Mohn’s, from Psalm 34, v. 20; rode to Peter Seitz’s, where our Conference is to be held. 26th—This forenoon the session of our Conference commenced; upwards of twenty preachers were present; poor unworthy me was elected their president. -
Contemporaries and Immediate Successors Of
Chapter III CONTEMPORARIES AND IMMEDIATE SUCCESSORS OF THE PIONEERS "Reformers whose names are ever dear unto us" The evangelical preaching of our pioneers resulted in many con verts. Numerous of these converts naturally joined their fellowship. Some of them were previously non-professors; others were of Mennonite, Amish, Reformed, Moravian, or other denominational adherence. By far the greater number were of Mennonite lineage. The quotation at .the head of this chapter is from a quarterly con".' ference record of the Salem Church, Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Several years after 1845 when the new Salem Church edifice had been erected someone wrote a brief account of the: "Origin and Rise of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ at Lebanon and Vicinity." A fuller statement embodying this quotation is as follows:, It is generally known that we as a Society are mostly an Order. From fifty to sixty years ago when darkness covered the earth and gross darkness the minds of the people of this sect as well as of many others. It pleased the Lord, in the order of his Providence, to bless the people of this place by the ministry 'of a few evangelical reformers whose names are ever dear unto us. Such were Boehm, Grosch, J. Neidig, A. Troxel, M. Kreider, and H. Landis. Soon after followed Zentmeir, Ellenberger; and our worthy father Felix Light, whose ministerial labors extended up to as late as 1842. All these men of God were of the Men nonite Order and Mennonite Reformers except father Troxel.1 But these worthy fathers were not without opposition, especially when they preached the unadulterated Word of God and spiritual life to their brethren (Mennonists) for they re jected their counsel, misconstrued the Word to the dead letter and ceremony, despised their holy zeal, and pronounced it, Ein Ehrgeist und iibertreibenheit, (a spirit of self-esteem and 'excessiveness), until these reformers, impartially and without attachment to any denomination, except fathers M. -
Timeline of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and Predecessor
By understanding our past, GCAH helps envision the future! timeline of the evangelical united brethren church and predecessor denominations The Evangelical Association (later Church) and the United Brethren Church arose in the midst of a religious awakening (“wachet auf”) in many PA “Dutch”/German communities beginning in the 1760s. A consortium of ministers and lay preachers of various German-American religious bodies “united” themselves for the task of carrying the gospel and Christian culture to the back-country Germans, many of whom had never experienced evangelical preaching let alone been exposed to Christian teaching, discipline, and sacramental life. These Germans introduced Methodist methods—forming societies and classes in several communities in southeastern PA, sending preachers on circuits and holding “big meetings” (camp meetings in summer and fall seasons). One of them was Philip Otterbein, a German Reformed clergyman, another Jacob Albright, a Lutheran farmer. Despite deep affi nities, EVs and UBs did not think of themselves simply as German Methodists. Except for the very early years, both movements thought of themselves as quite separate denominations. NOTE: In the following timeline EV= Evangelical Association/Church, UB= United Brethren Church and EUB= Evangelical United Brethren Church. OTTERBEIN AND BIRTH OF ALBRIGHT AND BIRTH OF THE THE UNITED BRETHREN EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION Philip Wilhelm Otterbein born into a family of ministers 1726 (Dillenberg, Germany) Image of Otterbein Otterbein, university educat- ed, ordained by the Reformed 1749 Church in Germany. Otterbein responds to call for missionaries in America. 1752 Appointed to the German Reformed Church (Lancaster, PA, Experiences a personal conversion. His new found joy leads him to share his passion with his congregation. -
Church Records
CHURCH RECORDS WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH COMPILED AND EDITED BY REV. NORMAN CARLYSLE YOUNG, M.Div.; M.Ed. AND NAOMI KATHLEEN IVEY HORNER UPDATED June 30, 2021 AN HISTORICAL RECORDS VOLUME PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ARCHIVES & HISTORY MINISTRY TEAM Printed by McElvany & Company Printing and Publishing 1 Copyright © 2021 by The Western Pennsylvania Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church All Rights Reserved 2 PREFACE The Historical Volume Church Records Western Pennsylvania Conference of The United Methodist Church was last printed in 2003. In order to keep the Church Records current, Janet & Norman C. Young were retained to update the more recent appointments and make necessary corrections as new information became available. Since their death, Naomi Horner has graciously volunteered to continue updating the volume. New information comes from the readers making corrections and suggestions. New information also comes from Naomi’s continued research on the companion volume Pastoral Records. The Western Pennsylvania Commission on Archives & History decided to make this revision and update available on these webpages www.wpaumc.org0H so that the most current information remains accessible and for corrections to continue to refine the document. This volume has had long history of Revision. Described by Herbert E. Boyd in his 1957 volume on the Erie Methodist Preface as a “compendium…intended primarily as an administrative tool.” He then credits forerunners back to 1898. At that time, this primarily contained Pastoral Records. Grafton T. Reynolds edited for the Pittsburgh Methodist Episcopal Church a similar volume through 1927. W. Guy Smeltzer divided his 1969 revision between chapters on Pastoral Records and Church Records. -
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Methodist History, 57:1 & 2 (October 2018 & January 2019) MERGING THE STREAMS: PIETISM AND TRANSATLANTIC REVIVAL IN THE COLONIAL ERA AND THE BIrtH OF THE EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION AND THE UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST J. Steven O’Malley The title of this paper was inspired by a discussion I opened in A Companion to German Pietism, 1660–1800 (Brill Academic, 2014).1 It was a chapter on the early theological roots of German American revivalism during the colonial era. These roots also represent the foundation for the Evangelical United Brethren (EUB) tradition. Speaking personally, I was among the last to be ordained into its ministry, the year before its history ended in 1968 and completed my doctoral studies at Drew on the theology of the Otterbeins in that same decade. Much of my reading and research over the next fifty years has been focused on exploring the roots of a denom- ination which disappeared under my feet, shortly after my ordination into it. The continued influence in The United Methodist Church (UMC) is here affirmed, and it is my aim in acquainting you with some of its important root- age from these earlier centuries, where it got its steam to make a 201 year run on the track of history, up to the union year of 1968. It became apparent that such a prologue needs to return to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe to discover the roots of this community of faith which, when it be- gan to organize in North America, was known in some quarters as the earliest indigenous denomination of European rootage formed in American history. -
The First Annual Conference of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, September 25,...26, 1800
Methodist History, 39:4 (July 2001) UNSECTARIAN PREACHERS AND UNCERTAIN BEGINNINGS: THE FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CHURCH OF THE UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST, SEPTEMBER 25,...26, 1800 K. JAMES STEIN Phillip William Otterbein . first met Martin Boehm at the grosse Versa11unlung (great meeting) held at Isaac Long's barn, six miles northeast of Lancaster, Pennsylvania on PentecostSunday, probably in thy year 1767. ·- .'I Otterbein, a pastor in the German Reformed Church, was about forty-one years old at the time. He had been serving congregations in the American colonies for some fifteen years. Both from the Reformed parsonage in Germany, which sent him and his five brothers into the ordained ministry, and his studies at the Herborn Academy in his native N as·sau, Otterbein had drunk deeply of the moderate Calvinism expressed by his church's Heidelberg Catechism. He was also much influenced by the vital Pietism taught by the Herborn faculty under whom he had studied. Beyond that, dur ing his first pastorate in America, he had experienced a definite personal assurance of God's salvation in Christ. Martin Boehm was only a year older than Otterbein. Born in Pennsyl vania of Swiss-German Mennonite parents, Boehm :married in 1753 and began farming. Five years later he was chosen by lot to become the minis ter of his local Mennonite congregation. His feeling of unworthiness for this task was confirmed by his halting and inept preaching. It was only an expe rience of conversion and divine assurance that changed Boehm's ministry into a vital one. Now he looked forward to Sunday (which he had once dreaded). -
CH 710 Pietism in the Christian Tradition J
Asbury Theological Seminary ePLACE: preserving, learning, and creative exchange Syllabi eCommons 1-1-2005 CH 710 Pietism in the Christian Tradition J. Steven O'Malley Follow this and additional works at: http://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi Recommended Citation O'Malley, J. Steven, "CH 710 Pietism in the Christian Tradition" (2005). Syllabi. Book 1376. http://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/1376 This Document is brought to you for free and open access by the eCommons at ePLACE: preserving, learning, and creative exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Syllabi by an authorized administrator of ePLACE: preserving, learning, and creative exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CH 710XL Pietism in the Christian Tradition J. Steven O’Malley, Instructor Asbury Theological Seminary Fall Semester, 2005 Email address: steven_o’[email protected] Office Phone: (859)858-2260 Online Office Hours: Monday and Friday, 12-2 pm Welcome I am delighted to be joining with you in this new learning venture. It is our privilege here to join together in exploring and sharing in the odyssey of a remarkable company of women and men, whose common heritage is in bearing witness to the living Christ as the ground for personal salvation and social and historical transformation. It is to acknowledge that we are not alone in ministry; rather, it is to discover vital resources from the past that can empower and gide us who seek to become pertakes in that vital company of the committed. In the annals of church history, the Pietist movement stands out as a peak period of light and renewal.