Wesley's Own Words

About Wesley's Own Words

This is your opportunity to join Pastor Jeremy and others as we explore John Wesley's original writing. These writings form the foundation of what it is to be a United Methodist or any part of the Wesleyan tradition. This is a podcast of the United Methodist Church of Johnstown Colorado (https://johnstown.church/)

Publisher

Rev. Jeremy W Scott

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Oct 2023

Latest episode

8 Apr 2025

Latest episodes

11 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Apr 2025

   Study: Almost Christian (Part 3)

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2. 

   25 Mar 2025

   Study: Almost Christian (Part 2)

3. 

   6 Mar 2025

   Study: Almost Christian (Part 1)

   Part 1 of Wesley's sermon "Almost Christian". Find the book here: https://amzn.to/3DiFhUU (https://amzn.to/3DiFhUU)

4. 

   26 Feb 2025

   Special Announcement: New Book is Out!

   You can now order a paperback or kindle version of Awakened Works: John Wesley's Wisdom in a Modern Voice. This include all the writings we have covered so far and three additional sermons we will cover soon. Check it out today! Amazon: https://amzn.to/3D7qgVP (https://amzn.to/3D7qgVP)

5. 

   19 Feb 2025

   Study: Advice to Methodists (Para. 25-26)

6. 

   12 Feb 2025

   Study: Advice to Methodists (Para. 21-24)

7. 

   22 Jan 2025

   Study: Advice to Methodists (Para. 9-12)

   9. Your strictness of life, taking the whole of it together, may likewise be accounted new. I mean, your making it a rule, to abstain from fashionable diversions, from reading plays, romances, or books of humor, from singing innocent songs, or talking in a merry, gay, diverting manner; your plainness of dress; your manner of dealing in trade; your exactness in observing the Lord's day; your scrupulosity as to things that have not paid custom; your total abstinence from spirituous liquors (unless in cases of necessity); your rule, "not to mention the fault of an absent person, in particular of Ministers or of those in authority," may justly be termed new: Seeing, although some are scrupulous in some of these things, and others are strict with regard to other particulars, yet we do not find any other body of people who insist on all these rules together. With respect, therefore, both to your name, principles, and practice, you may be considered as a new people. 10. Another peculiar circumstance of your present situation is, that you are newly united together; that you are just gathered, or (as it seems) gathering rather, out of all other societies or congregations; nay, and that you have been hitherto, and do still subsist, without power, (for you are a low, insignificant people,) without riches, (for you are poor almost to a man, having no more than the plain necessaries of life,) and without either any extraordinary gifts of nature, or the advantages of education; most even of your Teachers being quite unlearned, and (in other things) ignorant men. 11. There is yet another circumstance, which is quite peculiar to yourselves: Whereas every other religious set of people, as soon as they were joined to each other, separated themselves from their former societies or congregations; you, on the contrary, do not; nay, you absolutely disavow all desire of separating from them. You openly and continually declare you have not, nor ever had, such a design. And whereas the congregations to which those separatists belonged have generally spared no pains to prevent that separation; those to which you belong spare no pains (not to prevent, but) to occasion this separation, to drive you from them, to force you on that division to which you declare you have the strongest aversion. 12. Considering these peculiar circumstances wherein you stand, you will see the propriety of a Second advice I would recommend to you: "Do not imagine you can avoid giving offence:" Your very name renders this impossible. Perhaps not one in a hundred of those who use the term Methodist have any ideas of what it means. To ninety-nine of them it is still heathen Greek. Only they think it means something very bad, -- either a Papist, a heretic, an underminer of the Church, or some unheard-of monster; and, in all probability, the farther it goes, it must gather up more and more evil. It is vain, therefore, for any that is called a Methodist ever to think of not giving offence.

8. 

   24 Sept 2024

   Study: The General Rules (Para. 6b)

   The giving or taking things on usury—i.e., unlawful interest. Uncharitable or unprofitable conversation; particularly speaking evil of magistrates or of ministers. Doing to others as we would not they should do unto us. Doing what we know is not for the glory of God, as: The putting on of gold and costly apparel. The taking such diversions as cannot be used in the name of the Lord Jesus. The singing those songs, or reading those books, which do not tend to the knowledge or love of God. Softness and needless self-indulgence. Laying up treasure upon earth. Borrowing without a probability of paying; or taking up goods without a probability of paying for them.

9. 

   18 Sept 2024

   Study: The General Rules (Para. 4-6a)

10. 

    11 Sept 2024

    Study: The General Rules (Para. 1-3)

11. 

    17 Oct 2023

    Study: The General Rules (Para. 7-8a)

    7. It is expected of all who continue in these societies that they should continue to evidence their desire of salvation, 8. Secondly: By doing good; by being in every kind merciful after their power; as they have opportunity, doing good of every possible sort, and, as far as possible, to all men: To their bodies, of the ability which God giveth, by giving food to the hungry, by clothing the naked, by visiting or helping them that are sick or in prison. To their souls, by instructing, reproving, or exhorting all we have any intercourse with; trampling under foot that enthusiastic doctrine that "we are not to do good unless our hearts be free to it." By doing good, especially to them that are of the household of faith or groaning so to be; employing them preferably to others; buying one of another, helping each other in business, and so much the more because the world will love its own and them only. By all possible diligence and frugality, that the gospel be not blamed.

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