A good friend of mine from college became a Weselyan Christian

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He is the second straight guy I ever told I was gay and he was so cool about it. I admit to being so stunned at this. I had tracked him down on the net and emailed him via classmates.com. I know it is possible he is still OK with me but he likely isn't. It was really so shocking to be honest.

To read up on this church

http://www.wesleyan.org/

[Beregond2]

1. I'm not quite sure what you mean by Wesleyan.

Wesley was the founder of Methodism, which is generally a pretty liberal church. There are many "welcoming" Methodist congregations, who affirm gay people. Is this some other denomination I don't know about?

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2. I hadn't heard of it either

http://www.wesleyan.org/

It is an evangelical offshoot of Methodism.

[DURHAM D]

3. I am ethnic Methodist.

Until this very moment I had never heard of Wesleyan Christians. I thought they were going to be followers of Charles Wesley (not John). In other words, I figured they were polygamists.

I don't understand this movement - why don't these people just become Southern Baptists or join some other fundamentalist church? Oh I know, probably they are claiming Methodist church property as their own. Sue the bastards.

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5. actually they split with Methodists over slavery

they were against. But then they took a right turn aparently.

[madrchsod]

4. at one time methodist church was an "evangelical church"

but through the years "lost" it`s some of it`s evangelical roots. we have an evangelical methodist church and a "regular" methodist church. as far as i`m concerned i`m a shout`n methodist.

your friend knows you are more than just a label...christ does`t care what you are, he cares about how you treat others.