What happens in a typical Methodist service?

Question

What do they do on sundays when theyre in church?

Answer 1

There's a wide variety of customs in worship services. There is no episcopal edict that they all be the same. I can tell you about our small and traditional church.

The piano plays while the people come in. The choir assembles in a rooom for a last minute talk about their upcoming performance. When everyone is seated the accolytes walk up the middle aisle and light two candles then return back down the aisle. The choir sings a traditional hymn. We take about 10 - 15 minutes of getting out of our pews and greeting each other. Then the pastor begins the announcements. He asks the congregation for joys and concerns to share with the congregation. He then asks for prayer requests. There's lots of audience participation. The pastor then asks if anyone wants to come to the altar to pray. He kneels at the altar and prays for the concerns and prayer requests, and praises God. The prayer ends with everyone reciting the Lord's Prayer. The ushers are called forth and they pass around the colleciton plate, then the pastor prays over the offering. A traditional hymn or two is sung. We always sing all the verses. A Call to Worship with responsive reading occurred sometime earlier. Then there is a short children's sermon with the children sitting around the altar together. It usually involves some simple object lession. Choses Scripture readings from the Old Testament, Psalms, and the New Testmaent are read. The pastor then begins his sermon almost always related to one of the Scripture readings. If it's communion Sunday, (once per month) then that comes next. Then another hymn, the benediction, and a short song about wishing each other well, like "God be with You till we Meet Again." and everyoen visits and files out either to go home or to their Sunday School classes.

Other Methodist Churches have more contemporary services, with a very loud band and contemporary Christian music with the lyrics projected onto a wall. The sermon may be about a poem, or a pretty picture, or whatever, or it may be about the Scipture. Sermon topics are a bit looser here.

Is that more than you wanted to know? d:c) Hope this helps.

Answer 2

There are different types of Methodist churches. There are different patterns among churches of the same Methodist denomination.

I was raised in a country United Methodist church.
It was like a Baptist church really except we believed that backsliding and falling away were the same thing. But, that's what all Wesleyan based Methodist churches teach. Reformed Methodist churches are basically like Baptist or Presbyterian churches.

The United Methodist church in the town here acts alot more proper than the church in the country where i was raised. They have an organist and mostly rich attendees.

Methodist churches in the big cities are almost exactly like Lutheran and Anglican churches.

Methodist churches usually have Sunday School beginning at 10am. The adults even have a class.
The main service begins with congregational hymns.
An offering is taken up.
People make prayer requests.
The whole church prays for a few minutes.
The minister comes to the podium and preaches.
A song is sung.
A closing prayer is given.
We leave.

To read Methodist theology, do a websearch fo Armianianism.

Answer 3

OOOH! OOOH! I know!
I was raised in a methodist church.

The word "methodist" comes from the word "method" or "methodical".

Each service is almost IDENTICAL, except for the message. They begin the same way, sing the same songs, pass the offering plate at the same time and end the same way.

It is quite possibly the most boring way you could choose to spend your sunday morning.

It doesn't really matter though, because everybody knows that RAH, the sun god will ride back on his golden camel to reclaim his throne.

Believers of all other faiths will be cast into the tomb of 10,000 snakes!!! CRIKEY!

Answer 4

if you really want to know go to the methodist church and see first hand

Answer 5

Methodically you are adapted to the methods of the methodologist church and community and methodically also donate if you can.

Answer 6

30 min of calisthenics followed by a kitten sacrifice and karaoke. oh, and organ music.

Answer 7

Chant and sing....oh, those are Catholics. I guess they try to interpret the flawed, man-made Bible.

Answer 8

they apply every method to find the god bless u

Answer 9

dress up, kneel, put money in baskets, give others dirty looks, etc.