How can we remain Wesleyan if we do not heed the notes and sermons of John Wesley somehow You must not preach your personal theology but preach the theology of the church United Methodists should not preach contradict the doctrinal standards of the church, but they can "go beyond and expand" Wesley believed that the doctrine of the Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit was a "fundamental belief" of the Christian faith. Believing in the "complete deity" of Christ was also "essential" to ChristianityWesley thought there was "nothing more important" than the doctrine of the atonement. Without belief in the atonement, religion simply becomes deism, Wesley feared. Wesley insisted on “no particular understanding” of the atonement, but emphasized that “salvation was based on the atonement.” the whole life of Christ." Wesley was committed only to the traditional Protestant doctrine of Scripture as the final authority for the church. Wesley leaned on Eastern Orthodox traditions by emphasizing that we are "responsible for our own sins, not for the sins of our parents." Wesley stated and thought that justification by faith alone was essential, Wesley's emphasis was slightly different because he insisted that faith cannot mean assent alone but must involve the heart and affections. Wesley's seventh essential doctrine was regeneration through the “new birth,” Campbell said. The founder of Methodism cautioned against relying on the “lean reading of baptism,” when salvation required rebirth. Belief in the possibility of entire sanctification beyond regeneration was a hallmark of Methodism, although Campbell said that Wesley did not make it an essential Christian doctrine. United Methodism: "We are a church with clear doctrine. It shapes our practice in ways we don't know." Bishop Jones said Campbell's description of Wesley's theological "distinctions" was "wrong" because Wesley believed that there should be nothing distinct about Methodism. Wesley claimed that he was preaching "just the religion of the Bible." determined to preach “primitive Christianity” and save the faith from “more corrupt forms.” Jones claimed that Wesley was… at the heart of the paper… a voice in doctrine,” he insisted. The John Wesley Institute event was attended by approximately 50 people, most of whom were members of the United Methodist clergy. According to Ted A. Campbell, "Preventive grace is the appropriate title under which Methodists have described all the ways in which God works with human beings before they believe in Christ." This is the grace that comes before "faith in Christ". Says Ted A. Campbell, "The Methodist Articles of Religion, following the teachings of the Reformation, rejected the medieval Catholic idea of ​​purgatory as a place where the souls of those who died in Christ could be helped or aided by the prayers of the living. John Wesley himself believed in an intermediate state between death and the final judgment, where those who had rejected Christ would be aware of their impending (not yet pronounced) doom, and believers would share in "Abraham's bosom" or "paradise", even continuing there to grow in holiness. This belief, however, is not formally stated in Methodist doctrinal standards, which reject the idea of ​​purgatory but, beyond that, maintain silence about what lies between death and the final judgment..."