Methodism

The Wesley Understand of Human Salvation What is salvation? The salvation which is here spoken of is not what is frequently understood by the word, the going to heaven, eternal happiness. ……It is not a blessing which lies on the other side of death….it is a present thing….[it] might be extended to the entire work of God , from the first dawning of grace in the soul till it is consummated in glory (Maddox 143). Albert C. Outler noted that this sermon has the most extensive history of oral…

‘First Purchase African M.E. Church was in the Quarters outside the southern town limits.’ The first description we see regarding the church immediately tells us about the segregation in Maycomb and how blacks are only allowed to inhibit certain areas as the church is ‘outside southern town limits.’ Harper Lee states this during the first chapter of part two showing that she has already plummeted into the world of prejudice and racism in Maycomb. The appearance of the First Purchase Church…

My second hometown, Fuzhou, was one of the five “treaty ports” in the 1842’s Treaty of Nanjing signed between China and the United Kingdom. British merchandise flooded into China through these five ports, Qing dynasty’s seclusion policy which functioned as the national defense system was forced to collapse. In the meantime, missionaries also came to China and built churches, hospitals and schools. My home church in Fuzhou was built in this time (1856) by Rev. Robert Samuel Maclay and other…

“God’s grace is free and offered without merit; however, human beings have been granted freedom by God and can refuse his grace” (Calvinism Compared to Wesleyan Perspectives). The offer is for everyone, but not everyone will receive it as they may choose to resist the Spirit’s call. “The Holy Spirit can only draw to Christ those who allow him to have his way with them. Until the sinner responds, the Spirit cannot give life. God’s grace, therefore, is not invincible; it can be, and often is,…

Before the Great Awakening, Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, a German pastor’s son, born on November 6, 1692 in Lingen, Germany answered the call to theology. Shortly thereafter, whether answering a call from God, or at the urging of the Reverend Sicco Tjady, Frelinghuysen came to America, because the Dutch population needed ministers,/ along with his wife Eva Terhune, a farmer 's daughter; and five sons that all entered the ministry, and two daughters that married clergymen./ Frelinghuysen’s…

. As we mature in our faith, we remain surrounded by God’s sanctifying grace and blessed recipients of God’s love. God’s sanctifying grace moves us forward in our journey of service and love of God. It creates in us a maturity of faith, love and service. God remains in covenant with us, never leaving us, always enabling us to grow in our life-long journey of faith. What are the marks of the Christian life? Micah 6:8- “and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love…

After two failed relationships and a dubious call to celibacy, some may suspect that John gave up his aspirations for love. This is far from the truth. Less than a year and a half after Grace married, John hastily married a forty-one year old widow named Mary Vazeille on a whim. His brother Charles rebuked him, but John could not be dissuaded from marriage. About a month after the wedding, John made a peculiar comment concerning marriage that characterized his own ignorance toward the subject:…

John Wesley was a mighty pillar in the Christian church following the Reformation. Though there were many things in which Wesley agreed with other reformers, there were also areas in which Wesley saw a need for change. He saw a need for grace to be expounded upon. One of the things in which John Wesley is probably most known for, and Methodists across the globe would be “Grace”. Wesley believed there to be three components of “Grace” at work in ones life. Those components were: Prevenient Grace,…

McKnight’s presentation was very unique to any message than I had ever heard prior to listening to his. I’m not sure if it my background or my lack of previous theological study, but this was a very unique presentation for me to view. McKnight talked about Luther and Calvin helping to slightly re-shape the tradition of church. I grew up in an African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Kankakee. Growing up I had no idea what that meant. I knew that we were Methodist, but I didn’t know what…

Cecil J. Rhodes, or Cecil John Rhodes, was born in 1853 in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. As a young boy, throughout his years, his health was was weak and was thought to have a disease, consumptive. At the age of nine, he attended the Bishop’s Stortford grammar school. Later in about 1869 he was taken out of grammar school. He became a British businessman and a magnate, a great man with high authority and a man in a high social position. Cecil Rhodes was connected with Africa…