Founder of the Methodist movement (1703-1791)
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An 18th-century Anglican priest who took his preaching outdoors when parish doors closed, built a network of small accountability groups across Britain, and died having planted a movement that outlasted the church that nearly expelled him.
Educated at Oxford and ordained in 1728, Wesley led the "Holy Club" before an unsuccessful two-year ministry in Savannah, Georgia sent him back to London. On 24 May 1738, he experienced what he called his evangelical conversion among Moravian Christians, then broke away to start his own work. Barred from many parish pulpits, he began traveling and preaching outdoors, organizing small groups with intensive personal accountability and appointing itinerant evangelists — including women — to lead them. He argued against Calvinism and for Christian perfection: the belief that in this life a believe…
Sourced, dated quotes from John Wesley
In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker, on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. It is our part, by religion and reason joined, to counteract them all we can.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
Will any dare to speak against loving the Lord our God with all our heart, and our neighbour as ourselves?
Lord, let me not live to be useless!
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