What is the creed of The United Methodist Church?

The Social Creed was originally adopted by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1908.  “The Methodist Social Creed originated...to express Methodism's outrage over the lives of the millions of workers in factories, mines, mills, tenements and company towns....The Methodist Federation for Social Service immediately took up the challenge of getting the 1908 General Conference to address the social crisis.  The key strategy was to secure adoption of a statement on "The Church and Social Problems. " Proponents of the Social Creed came up with a "list of 11 social reforms the group believed the church should champion, including the abolition of child labor and an end to the sweatshop system." (Interpreter, April 1988)

The Social Creed was continually expanded and revised until, in 1972, it was completely redesigned and renamed the Social Principles.

The Social Creed now follows the Social Principles in the Book of Discipline.