WHO WE ARE

First United Methodist Church

34 West Washington Street ● Shelbyville, Indiana 46176

(317) 398-8854 ● (317) 398-8660 fax ● info@1umc.net

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Worship Times:

8:30 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Sunday School:

9:30 a.m.

Office Hours:

M-T-Th-F

8 AM - 12 PM

1 - 4 PM

We believe in a loving God whose blessed creation is both good in itself and the precondition of grace and covenant.

We believe that the nature and purpose of God are most fully disclosed in Jesus Christ, who comes among us as One filled with grace – teaching, challenging injustice, expressing love, embracing those who are rejected.

We believe in the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit, present always as an expression of Divine love, drawing us into the heart of God and into new visions of human possibility.

We believe that humankind, though fallible and inclined toward sin, both personal and systemic, is created in the image of God. We recognize that humankind stands always in need of Divine grace, and we humbly confess that the ways of God greatly transcend the grasp of human understanding.

We believe that God draws us into deeper theological understanding through the gifts of Scripture, Tradition, Experience and Reason.

We believe that the Church is the Body of Christ, alive and at work in the world. The Church is God’s intended human community of love and grace – a sign of God’s reign.

Therefore, we will seek to grow into the likeness of Christ through Hospitality, Christian Initiation, Nurture, Outreach and Witness to the One who has come among us as our example.

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