The shared center — held across the tradition
No creed but the New Testament — and that has been tested every generation.
The Brethren have never adopted a confession of faith, which is a positive doctrine rather than an absence: a creed is held to fix in one century's language what must stay open to the text. It also means every dispute goes to Annual Conference rather than to a document.
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Baptism is three times, forward, into running water if there is any.
The candidate kneels in the stream and is pressed face-forward once at the name of each person of the Trinity — forward because a person bows to be baptised rather than falling backward. Then hands are laid on while still kneeling in the water.
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