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107:Methodist Church in Britain
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903:Covenant Renewal Service
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1173:World Methodist Council
1107:Holiness Pentecostalism
276:superintendent minister
119:United Methodist Church
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1005:Benjamin Titus Roberts
804:Imparted righteousness
314:model, for example of
105:, as practised in the
990:John William Fletcher
844:Sunday Sabbatarianism
659:First Great Awakening
623:List of denominations
259:Further information:
123:Free Methodist Church
103:ecclesiastical polity
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940:Brush arbour revival
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849:Christian perfection
741:Articles of Religion
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475:Doe, Norman (2013).
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1251:Church organization
1178:Saints in Methodism
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765:Distinctive beliefs
1193:Itinerant preacher
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957:Watchnight service
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295:American Methodism
211:In the history of
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156:conferences
96:theological
39:Connexional
1235:Categories
945:Revivalist
928:Tabernacle
918:Altar call
630:Background
338:References
322:churches.
299:See also:
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241:connection
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1080:movements
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819:Free will
814:New birth
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