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This is the question I want to address for the next several weeks with you. United Methodists are sometimes accused of not believing in anything. Or we are accused of not having any established doctrine. But the fact of the matter is that there are definitely distinguishing characteristics of a United Methodist, and I intend on presenting at least eight of them for you in this series of newsletter articles. It is important to remember that as United Methodists we are Wesleyan in the expression of our faith. This means that we adhere to the spiritual and doctrinal emphases of John Wesley, the great church reformer in the Anglican tradition. Of course the Anglican Church never embraced the reforms of John Wesley, which did not prevent Wesley from maintaining his Anglican Church membership till the day he died. It was the Wesleyan “reformation movement” which eventually became known as Methodism. From the original Methodist movement sprang many other religious traditions, too numerous to mention here.