Religious Community Is No Replacement for Real Christian Spirituality

Truth is fallen in the street.
–Isaiah 59:14 (KJV)–

Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past,
through the forbearance of God.
–Romans 3:25 (KJV)–

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit,
that we are the children of God.
–Romans 8:16 (KJV)–

Did not our heart burn within us,
while he talked with us by the way,
and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
–Luke 24:32 (KJV)–

Holding faith, and a good conscience;
which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck.
–1 Timothy 1:19 (KJV)–

In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther’s Preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, 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 salvation; and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death. –John Wesley, Journal for May 24, 1738


W. Kostlevy, ed. Historical Dictionary of the Holiness Movement (Rowman, 2025).

John Wesley, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (Beacon Hill Press, 1966).


—. Calvinism Calmly Considered (Schmul, 2001).

—. Wesleyana (Allegheny Publications, 1979).


Adam Clarke, Christian Theology (Schmul, 1990).

Charles Finney, Lectures to Professing Christians (J. S. Taylor, 1837).

A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God (Christian Publications, 1993).

Dr. Thomas C. Oden, John Wesley’s Scriptural Christianity (Zondervan, 1994).

Dr. Harald Lindström, Wesley and Sanctification (Zondervan, 1998).

Dr. Kenneth J. Collins, Wesley on Salvation (Zondervan, 1989).

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