I shall quote John Wesley's own words with regard to his conversion He said: "In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Street where one wa Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Roma About a quarter before me, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed, I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for my salvation, and an assurance Was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me fro the law of sin and death".
After his experience on May 24 and Militarism and Hatred very source, Absolute goodness is high standard but since it is a ment standard is not "impossibly By adopting it our struggle en against the world would not be dramatically. We would be ent on a long, à slow, but yet a sure w We would make ourselves felt evei where and reaching to one anoth across international boundaries we would lay a foundation upon which peace will ultimately be built, "Be ye perfect, even as your Father whi heaven is perfect", (Matt, 5:48)
I feel is one of the things Wesley e with us today, Our stand must be above the vel; it must be absolute.
In the words of the hymn which we have been singing ior a heart (o praise m i A heart from sin set free.
That is what the world needs—hearts from, sin set free.
1738, he said that h's heart wa: strangely warmed. He immediately shared his experience with hi brother, Charles, He could not hold that experience to himself, he mu share it with others, From that time he made a motto for his religious life, namely, "Remember we annet serve God alone. we must try io find companions or make them The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion".
After that vital experience of true living faith in Christ, the saviour of mankind, he kept his eyes fixed upon Him and his soul waiting on Him continually. He was living a life of absolute surrender and 2 changed life, He possessed a sense of a new man, a new creature, with' life radiant With regard to conversion, there are two types, namely, the type of a sudden change and the other is of the gradual development, John Wesley's conversion was of the latter type, He wa inno never a terrible He was taught to act as a Christian since his "Zeal for Friendliness"
My second suggestion would be this: The Church should develop a renewed zeal for friendliness. We've grown cold; we've lost our glow: we have become half-hearted; a spirit of futility, Like a dead hand, rests upon us. We need to recapture the early Methodists' passion for fellowship. Here again I have Wesley's supper Methodi: stands for Christan brother: It honours the ministry boyhood. It was through the conversion as a power which he wonderfully experienced, that he was transformed into a man of courage, of ncerity, of patience and of tolerance and finally was made an evangelist of confidence and hope. He had a passion for "openness", He was alwa trunk and never kept a was also ready to admit er if convinced, and take blames {or them accordingly it cherishes the sacrzir but in its view the proof in Church-membership essentially not in the observance sacraments, not in obedience to of in subscription to creeds but in the fulfilling the Christ's followers o law Hi ai love by their seeking to bear one another's burdens, Have we not here a golden key to the present situation? The bearm of one another's burdens: the fulfilling of Christ's law of love. More Jove and less hatred, more friendliness and less enmity. more fellowship and less aloofness, this is the clamant ced of society. Charles hymns glow with this thought a need {o recapture the fla The early Church, kindled by God's love, moved forward like a flowin; tide. In the 18th and early 1911 century it was generally unde: in England th Methodist chapel was a place one went to get one's soul saved, Everybody knew the clear purposiveness of the people who worshipped ther, Could our hearts be set on tre by the love of 1 the Church 1 would become place with à deo! ly-defined objec centre where broken spirit would be healed, where men of high ideals would draw their inspiration where statesmen would find guidance in solution of the world's lems, That surely would be memorial to John Wesley Sulphurie Acid
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