Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
I am no longer my own, but yours. Put me to what you will, place me with whom you will. Put me to doing, put me to suffering. Let me be put to work for you or set aside for you, Praised for you or criticized for you.
This is very similar to John Wesley's most famous quote: “Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.”
I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions.
Instead, Wesley viewed Christian holiness biblically as a linear movement forward. He taught that despite the inner assurance and regeneration of character that results from justification, it is never too long before the new believer discovers that there is still a root of sin within.
Unlike the Calvinists of his day, Wesley did not believe in predestination, that is, that some persons had been elected by God for salvation and others for damnation. He understood that Christian orthodoxy insisted that salvation was only possible by the sovereign grace of God.
After accepting doctrine of assurance from the Moravian Pietists, Wesley began preaching for an inward conviction of the conversion and the work of the Holy Spirit in individuals. In his Journal entry for August 15, 1750, Wesley expresses his belief why the gifts have diminished through the ages.
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.”
Prayer, Wesley said, “is the grand means of drawing near to God” (Letter to Miss March, 3–29–1760); it is “the breath of our spiritual life” (NT Notes, I Thes. 5:16). While petition and intercession are forms of prayer, they are not the whole. The focus of prayer is not on our requests, however urgent, but on God.
Wesley described death in three different ways. Of course, death he says, is a result of sin. And he talks about death as spiritual death, physical death and eternal death. So when he talks about spiritual death, he recognizes that as a result of sin we are separated from a Holy God.
The rules from Wesley, the founder of Methodism, are simple: "Do no harm. Do good. Stay in love with God." These rules also apply to how we live our online lives in social media.
Wesleyans believe in one God, who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and the Savior of all who put their faith in Him alone for eternal life. We believe that those who are made new in Christ are called to be holy in character and conduct, and can only live this way by being filled with the Lord's Spirit.
John Wesley said one reason so many rich people cared nothing for the poor was that they had never been inside a poor person's home, did not know how the poor lived, and had no first-hand experience of poverty themselves.
It is called the "Jesus Prayer", and it consists simply in uttering the single word "Jesus" (or "Lord Jesus", or "Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, a sinner") in any situation, at any time and place, either aloud or silently.
The greatest prayer ever prayed is recorded in the 17th chapter of John. This is our Lord's vale- dictory prayer which He prayed shortly before going to the Garden of Gethsemane and then to the cross.
The most common prayer among Christians is the "Lord's Prayer", which according to the gospel accounts (e.g. Matthew 6:9-13) is how Jesus taught his disciples to pray.
John Wesley (1739), quotes the very scholarly Bishop Joseph Butler's critical remark to Wesley, “Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing.” Wesley replied, “I pretend to no extraordinary revelations, or gifts of the Holy Ghost: none but what ...
He modeled this conviction by devoting at least two hours a day to personal prayer and made fervent prayer a hallmark of the movement.
Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made and dost forgive the sins of all those who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and ...
John Wesley taught that God's grace is unearned and that we were not to be idle waiting to experience grace but we are to engage in the means of grace. The means of grace are ways God works invisibly in disciples, hastening, strengthening; and confirming faith so that God's grace pervades in and through disciples.
A Church of England clergyman, John Wesley (1703–1791) is often labelled the 'Founder of Methodism'.
Ken Collins, The Theology of John Wesley [Nashville, 2007], 64-65). None of us is individually guilty because of sins another person has committed, or at least it should be said, none of us is eternally lost because of inherited guilt. We all bear our own responsibility for sin.
The official United Methodist doctrine is that Jesus was the Son of God, the child of the virgin Mary and the Holy Spirit, truly God and truly Man, who for us and for our salvation came down from heaven. He is eternal Savior and Mediator, who intercedes for us and by him all persons will be judged.
SUMMARY Wesleyans believe in one God, who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the Savior of all persons who put their faith in Him alone for eternal life. We believe those who receive new life in Christ are called to be holy in character and conduct, and can only live this way by being filled with the Lord's Spirit.
It specifies three types of grace: prevenient grace, which is God's active presence in people's lives before they even sense the divine at work in their lives; justifying grace, through which all sins are forgiven by God; and sanctifying grace, which allows people to grow in their ability to live like Jesus.