The “Regular” Methodist Conference Traditional Cache
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The “Regular” Methodist Conference
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I have traveled this road for over 40 years, and had never noticed
this marker until the Better Half of Team Gawfer asked me about it
a couple of weeks ago.
During the Revolution there were those
who felt a need to change their church loyalties. Roger and George
Thompson, justices, were Methodist leaders as well as vestrymen.
They worshipped at Broken Back Church and were instrumental in
building the second church. (Broken Back Church stood on George
Thompson’s Broken Island Plantation.) Though still a movement
within the Church of England, those who followed Wesley were
sympathetic to the rebel cause and soon took steps to separate
themselves from the Church and form a new denomination. As the
Revolution progressed, no more ministers came from England; many
returned there, and the Anglican leader of the Methodists, an
Englishman named Asbury, went ‘into hiding’ in New Jersey. Because
there were so few Established Church ministers, and because the
Methodist circuit-riding ministers were not allowed to give the
sacraments, the Methodists decided to take drastic action. At the
famous Broken Back Methodist Regular Conference held at Roger
Thompson’s home in Fluvanna in 1779, the Methodist ministers formed
a vestry and ordained themselves so they could administer the
sacraments. This action led to the formation of the Methodists as a
separate denomination.”
This page submitted on March 10, 2009, by J. J. Prats of
Springfield, Virginia.
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