اللوثرية مقابل الميثودية: الإرادة الحرة، المعمودية، والتناول

Lutherans and Methodists both baptize infants and teach justification by faith. They differ most over conversion: Lutherans teach it is God’s work alone, while Methodists teach that grace frees every person to accept or refuse God. They also explain baptism and Communion differently, yet the ELCA and the United Methodist Church have shared full communion since 2009. Methodism has Luther in its own story. John Wesley’s heart was “strangely warmed” in 1738 while he listened to Luther’s preface to Romans,…