In part 1 of the series, we wrote about the mission side of Wesley’s crystal-clear vision. His mission was to save souls for Christ. In part two, we explore Wesley’s similarly clear strategy to accomplish
Caleb Friedeman’s recent post titled “Eight Things Wesleyans Could Learn from Neo-Calvinists” seemed to be right and true. It got me thinking, however, about the abundance of distinctive Wesleyan doctrinal tenants that we hold either
Clarity of mission and strategy is vital for your ministry. The tension between increasing needs and decreasing resources can tempt pastors into a ministry model where success is about meeting felt needs, keeping the status
I’m a Wesleyan. Always have been, always will be. However, as I look across the landscape of American evangelicalism, it’s hard to escape the fact that something new and exciting is happening in the Calvinist
For a moment, I want for you to imagine a messy car. You know the kind—it belongs to a friend or family member and when they come to pick you up, you open the door
That postmodernity is a hazy concept, ill-defined and worse-employed, is by now a sad truism, only worsened by its many variants and broad influence over multiple areas of contemporary life and thought. It must be
“I’ve got something that I want you to pray about…” When someone speaks these words to a friend or pastor, it’s normally out of personal need or an urgent and distressing situation. This need or
Breakthrough! “The just shall live by faith” (Rom. 1:17 KJV). Famously, Martin Luther awoke spiritually and theologically when he realized that justification came by faith, not works. He grasped Paul’s words: “For therein is the
In the conclusion of John Wesley’s sermon Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount, 4, the father of Methodism calls the Church to embrace the radical call of the gospel. “In a word, be thou
In The Explicit Gospel, Matt Chandler recounts a disturbing, but eye-opening, moment during a public baptism at The Village, the church he pastors in Dallas, Texas. “One after another, each person stirred the waters and
Perhaps my greatest research interest as of late is studying how various theologians and church leaders throughout history sought to form and educate believers in the Christian faith in their particular contexts. Though I do
Does Bible translation matter? In this post, Matt O’Reilly sheds some light on the usefulness of knowing Greek and demonstrates how one word can have a bearing on an entire doctrine—in this case, Wesleyan perfection.
