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What was forced upon Wesley?
New methods
What kind of methods neve met the needs outside of the church?
The Traditional Church
What happen between Aldersgate and 1739?
Pulpits closing to him wherever he preached salvation.
What was one of the churches Wesley preached at?
St. John the Evangelist
How did people feel when Welsey was not allowed to preach at St. John the Evangelist?
Offended
What other church was he not allowed to preach at?
His father’s church in Epworth
Where, instead did he preach in Epworth?
His father’s tombstone
Who did Welsey busy himself with?
Those already converted
Who challenged Welsey?
George Whitfield
What building did Welsey get denied to preach at?
A consecrated building
When he preached to coal miners, where did he preach to them?
A Hill
How big did the crowds grow in March 1739
20,000
Why was there a need for field preachers?
The Industrial Revolution had no boundaries
Scores of villages without a church or priest
Where did George Whitfield preach?
Leeds
What did Welsey think about saving a soul in a church?
Almost a sin if it had not been done in a church
What did Wesley cast lots on?
I submitted to be viler and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation
How many people did Welsey preach to on the hill on April 2, 1739?
3000
How many people did Welsey preach to in Bristol?
47500 people
averaging 3000
How many times did Welsey preach between April and December?
500 times
Out of the 500 times Wesley preached, how many were in a church?
8
Which sibling on Wesley’s was against that way of his preaching?
Samuel
What was the main criticism against Wesley and Whitfield?
The strange way of their preaching
How did Welsy defend his approach?
Further Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion
What was an accusation one made against Welsey?
Invading another man’s parish
Who did Wesley write a letter to?
James Hervey
Where was the base of Wesley’s operation?
London
What Society did he create?
Fetters Lane Society
Methodist Society
Where was the next headquarters located?
City Road Chapel
What other three places did he add?
Bristol
New Castle
Tyne
What were the three new places called?
Three-part Triangle
How many miles did Wesley travel?
250,000 miles
How many sermons did Welsey preach?
425,000 sermons
How many books did Wesley write?
200 books
Where did Wesley preach?
Anywhere
How did Welsey get people to come?
He would set up shop and preach
Where is one place Welsey preached?
Marketsquare Cross
How early did Wesley preach and how many times?
At 5 AM once or twice a week
What stopped Wesley from completing his mission?
Nothing
What did Welsey remind his pastors of?
There is nothing to do but save souls
How is Wesley depicted?
On horseback
How many times did he travel to Scotland?
22 times
How many times did Wesley travel to Ireland?
21 times
How did Welsey travel?
He walked until he got older than used a carriage
Who did Welsey’s ministry mainly affect?
Those who were beyond the usual ministry of the church
What was the economic status of most of the people?
Poor
Were the people in the crowds more or less than the church could handle?
More
What economic class was rampant?
Poverty
What did Welsey set up to help the poor?
Dispensaries
Orphan houses
Cooperative industries
Who did Wesley spend most of his time with?
The poor
What did Welsey become known as?
The Pastor of the Mob
What was Welsey first and foremost?
An evangelist
How do Welsey live?
By preaching
What did Wesley constantly tell his preachers?
We have nothing to do but save souls
What kind of preaching did Welsey not do?
Luscious preaching
Who is a gospel minister?
One is not a gospel minister unless he deckares the whole gospel of God
What does the whole gospel contain?
o 1. God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility
o 2. Christ’s death on the cross and man’s involvement in what was purchased there.
o 3. The precious promises and terror and wrath
o 4. An invitation to receive Christ with a deep conviction of sin
o 5. Justification by faith and the newness of the sanctified life.
o 6. Only when all these are heard is the whole Gospel set forth.
What is the best method of preaching?
Invite
Convince
Offer Christ
Build up
How did Welsey end his sermons?
With an appeal
Hiw could anyone measure the results of their ministry?
Converted people
What did the opposition of the church lead Welsey to do?
Open-air preaching
Where was Welsey mobbed?
Westberry
What was one distraction to disturb meetings?
A bull was driven through the crowds
Cows let out
Who were some of the people that opposed Welsey?
Local gentry and clergy
What was other distraction?
A gentleman threw money into the crowd and the sheriff tried to arrest
What was the last distract?
A man had a pocket full of rotten eggs
but a someone smashed them in his pocket
Why was this persecution so hard on Welsey?
He saw himself as a loyal churchman
What was Welsey determined about Methodism?
It would live pure and consistent to be modeled after Christ
What kind of societies did Welsey establish?
Methodist Societies
What were Methodist Socieities?
They were not seperate from the church but to give more opportunities for Christian fellowship, prayer, searching the Scriptre and sharing the Christian experience
How did Welsey reply to a complaint?
That which never existed, cannot be destroyed.”
Where was the first society?
Foundry in London
Where did the next societies exist
New Castle and Bristol
What were the Genral Rules?
Do no harm
Do all good you can
Attend the ordinances. of God
What was a deeper form of membership than societies?
Bands
What were the rules for bands?
Meet once a week
be punctual
Sing and piety
Confess freely
Leaders ask searching questions
What was even closer than bands?
Class meetings
What were closer than class meetings?
Select socieities
What was Welsey’s wish for these groups?
That they would not be seperate from the church
What did Welsey use to make sure that there were not disorderly walkers in the society?
Tickets
What is the Fetter Lane Society issue called?
Stillness
Who is Philip Molter and what did he do?
A Moravian and he convinced a number of the society they should discontinue the Means of Grace and be before the Lord
What kind of faith did Welsey not believe?
Faith in Christ canceled out of any good works of piety and mercy
What did Charles call the movement?
Dumb show
How many man and women left and went with Wesley to the Foundry?
1/3
Who called Welsey to field preaching?
George Whitfield
What are the two main areas of controversy?
Predestination
Imputed righteousness
What does God enable us through to respond to His call?
Grace
What did socieities have rules against?
Discoursing on any controverted point of divinity
What differences did Welsey overlook?
If it did not cause trouble
Whitfield lead the calvinist what?
Evangelical revival
What was one of Welsey’s book?
Free Grace
Why did Wesley write Free Grace?
To point out his differences with Whitfield
What were the issues in Free Grace?
Atonement
Unconditional election
Reprobation
Perservance
What did Whitfield’d letter entail to Wesley?
It was criticizing his view of sin and Christian perfection
What was another book Welsey published?
Serious Thoughts on the Perseverance of the Saints
What did Calvinists build their doctorine on?
On the Sovereignty of God without considering his other attributes
What did early preachers leave?
Father in the Gospel
What is the Anglican opposition?
The more Methodism grew, the more of a threat it seemed to the Anglican Church
Who was the Bishop of Gloucster?
Williams Warburton
What did Warburton claim about Wesley?
An enthusiast, a fanatic who drove common people mad
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