The Constitution opens by declaring the church’s faith in the Holy Trinity and its loyalty to the "Doctrines and Sacraments of Christ as contained in the Old and New Testaments." It formally adopts the Standard Sermons of John Wesley and the Notes on the New Testament as the standards of preaching.
The Standing Orders provide a graded system of pastoral discipline, replacing arbitrary punishment: The Constitution opens by declaring the church’s faith
For ministers, the process involves the Ministerial Session of Synod, a Committee of Inquiry, and a potential trial before a District Ministerial Tribunal (SO 420–450). For ministers , the process involves the Ministerial
For the average member, accessing these documents was historically difficult (expensive printed volumes). Today: a Committee of Inquiry