In this brief and accessibly written book, Belton Joyner parallels for 'youth, parents, and other confused Methodists' the questions raised by Foote and Thornburgh in Being Presbyterian in the Bible Belt: What do Methodists [particularly United Methodists] believe about salvation,. scriptural authority, the divinity of Jesus Christ and so forth. The book will help them understand their own faith in light of the dominant forces of evangelicalism and fundamentalism in the Bible Belt.
Chapters focus on Salvation, original sin, Living in Community, The bible/scriptural authority, the Wesleyan Quadrilateral [reason, experience, tradition and Scripture], Baptism,I instituted means of grace [including Lord's Supper, worship, prayer and the ministry of the Word], Prudential means of grace [social holiness, works of mercy], Methodists Polity, Ecumenism.
