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The Motto
"God Our Father, Christ Our Redeemer, Man Our
Brother" is a great summary of what the African Methodist
Episcopal Church believes.
Also known
as the A.M.E. Church for short, the denomination is Methodist
in terms of its basic doctrine and order of worship. It was
born, through adversity, of the Methodist church and to this
day does not differ in any major way from what all Methodists
believe. The split from the main branch of the Methodist
Church was not a result of doctrinal differences but rather
the result of a time period that was marked by man's
intolerance of his fellow man, based on the color of his
skin. It was a time of slavery, oppression and the
dehumanization of people of African descent and many of these
un-Christian practices were brought into the church, forcing
Richard Allen and a group of fellow worshippers of color to
form a splinter denomination of the Methodist Church. To find
the basic foundations of the beliefs of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church, .you need look no further than The
Apostles' Creed and The
Twenty Five Articles of Religion.
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