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“As our American brethren…are now at full liberty, simply to follow the scriptures and the primitive church…we judge it best that they should stand fast in that liberty, wherewith God has so strangely made them free.” -John Wesley

As we approach the 250th birthday of our country, we pause to remember a group of men who proposed some radical, revolutionary beliefs and convictions. They wrote to the King of England a declaration of independence. All people are given certain rights given to us by our Creator; rights including Life, Liberty, and the pursuit…