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Paoli Wesleyan Church

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    • Statement of Faith
    • What to Expect
    • Sunday Sermons
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Peace of mind and joyous living centered in Jesus Christ is the Bible message to which the Wesleyan Church is dedicated.


The Importance of spiritual values to the home and family life of the community is clearly recognized.  This church is committed to helping provide these values.


The local congregation is a part of a respected and responsible larger fellowship of churches.  This brings encouragement and confidence and guards against isolation and self-centered church life.

What do Wesleyans believe about the Bible?

We believe the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.  We believe that the Bible is the complete revelation of God's plan for the salvation of man and the divine final authority for all Christian beliefs and practices.  

What do Wesleyans believe about God?

We believe that God is an Eternal Personal Being of absolute knowledge, power and goodness, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

What do Wesleyans believe about Jesus Christ?

We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, free from moral taint of nature, perfect in life and conduct, in His miracles, and in His vicarious death.  We believe in His atonement for the whole human race, in His bodily resurrection from the dead, in His ascension into heaven where, at the right hand of God, He is now our High Priest and Advocate. We believe in His bodily return to earth in His second coming.

What do Wesleyans believe about the Holy Spirit?

We believe the Holy Spirit is a person - the Third Person in the triune God, and in His agency in creation, preservation, revelation, and redemption.

What do Wesleyans believe about man?

We believe that man was created by God, that he did not evolve from matter or from lower forms of life. Because of willful disobedience, he brought upon himself both physical and spiritual death and passed on to all posterity a sinful nature for which he becomes personally responsible to God at the age of accountability.

What do Wesleyans believe about the way of salvation?

We believe that man's return to God is only through the enabling of the Holy Spirit.  We believe that both repentance and faith are conditions of obtaining the new birth.  We believe that born-again Christians are called to be cleansed from a remaining sinful nature and filled with the Holy Spirit.  Through a definite confession of inward sinfulness, a presentation of one's self as a living sacrifice, and an obedient faith in  the promised cleansing through the atoning blood.  It is not, however, the teaching of the Church that this cleansing delivers from infirmities, from ignorance, and from mistakes which are common to man.  We believe that the Holy Spirit bears witness both to the new birth and also to heart cleansing and Spirit fullness.  All are retained by daily obedience and faith.  We believe that evidence of the Spirit's fullness are not the possession of spiritual gifts, but a life of inward and outward righteousness.  We believe that man's return to God from a fallen state is completed in the redemption of the corruptible body and the resurrection of God's people.  

What do Wesleyans believe about life after death?

We believe in the conscious existence of the dead, the resurrection of the body, the final judgement, everlasting life of the saved, and everlasting punishment of the wicked.

What do Wesleyans believe about the church?

We believe that the church is God's ordained institution comprised of all who believe on Jesus Christ for salvation, among whom the Word of God is preached, divine worship of God is exercised, the means of grace are duly administered, the attitudes toward God and man as exemplified in Jesus Christ are fostered, and the solemn obligation of a worldwide gospel witness is faithfully fulfilled.  

What do Wesleyans believe about the sacraments?

We believe there are two sacraments:  The Lord's Supper administered openly and baptism by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.

What do Wesleyans believe about the practice of godly living and separation from the world?

We believe that Christians are not to isolate themselves, but rather are to be as lights in the world.  As salt, as leaven, they are to affect for good whatever culture of which they are a part.


We believe, however, that Christians are in a very true sense to be separate from this world.  They are to have a spirit and life-style different from their non-Christian contemporaries, for they are to base their way of life on the teachings of the Bible.


We believe that the way of life involves: being honest in all dealings with other persons; showing respect for all authority; having reverence for the name of the Deity; observing the Lord's Day in worship at His house and in spiritual edification; giving tithes and offerings to support the work of the kingdom; abstaining from all forms of spiritualism, from the use of alcoholic beverages and all harmful drugs, from the use of tobacco, and from gambling.


We believe that Christians seek to exalt Christ by sincere obedience; by honoring Him in every phase of family life; by striving together to advance God's kingdom and to mutually edify fellow believers in holiness, knowledge, and love.

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