الميثودية مقابل المشيخية: الإرادة الحرة أم القدر، الأساقفة أم الشيوخ

Methodists and Presbyterians are both Protestant families that baptize infants and keep two sacraments. They differ on salvation and government: Presbyterians confess that God chose the saved and keeps them to the end, while Methodists teach that grace reaches everyone and can be refused. Elders govern Presbyterian churches; in the largest American Methodist churches, bishops appoint pastors. The quarrel is an old one, and at its best it has been a family quarrel. John Wesley, the father of Methodism, said…