Ask The UMC: Does the UMC Accept the Baptism of Other Denominations?
A page on the United Methodist Church’s website explaining which baptisms that church recognizes. It says that the baptism of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not what United Methodists consider Christian baptism.
The page says that the United Methodist Church recognizes baptisms with water in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit by a person authorized by the other denomination, and does not rebaptize. It then lists what it does not recognize. Of the Latter-day Saints it says that they use the words “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit” when they baptize but mean such different things by them that, in the page’s words, both churches agree that what they offer “is not what we consider Christian baptism”.
The page is an explanation for enquirers and is not a resolution of the church’s General Conference. The church’s news service reported on 10 May 2000 that the General Conference had that day approved guidelines on the subject, “Sacramental Faithfulness”, which recommend baptism for Latter-day Saints who join; the wiki could not open their text and does not cite them. See Joseph Smith and the Latter-day Saints.
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- 6 April 1830, firm date