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Charles G. Finney, True Submission (Kregel, 1967), p. 125.

—. Victory Over the World (Kregel, 1966), p. 62.

—. Sermons on Gospel Themes (Revell, 1876), p. 408.

Dr. Thomas C. Oden, John Wesley’s Scriptural Christianity (Zondervan, 1994), p. 91.

Mack Tomlinson, In Light of Eternity: The Life of Leonard Ravenhill (Free Grace Press, 2010).

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Denominations and associations of churches aligned with the conservative holiness movement include the following though independent churches aligned with the common themes of the conservative holiness movement exist too:

Wesleyan Tabernacle Association

Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection

Bible Holiness Church^[27]

Bible Methodist Connection of Churches

Bible Methodist Connection of Tennessee^[45]

Bible Missionary Church

Calvary Holiness Church (Philadelphia)^[46]

Central Yearly Meeting of Friends^[47]

Church of God (Holiness)^[48]

Church of God (Guthrie, Oklahoma)^[26]

Church of the Bible Covenant

Crusaders Churches of America^[49]

Emmanuel Association^[50]

Evangelical Methodist Church Conference

Evangelical Wesleyan Church

Faith Missionary Association

Fellowship of Independent Methodist Churches

First Bible Holiness Church^[51]

God’s Missionary Church^[52]

Grace Tabernacle Church^[53]

House of Prayer

Immanuel Missionary Church^[29]

International Fellowship of Bible Churches^[38]

International Conservative Holiness Association^[54]

Pilgrim Holiness Church (Midwest Conference)

Pilgrim Holiness Church of New York^[55]

Reformed Free Methodist Church

United Holiness Church (Southeast Indiana)

United Holiness Church of Korea

United Missionary Church

Wesleyan Bible Holiness Church

Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches^[56]

Wesleyan Holiness Alliance^[31]: 781

Wesleyan Nazarene Church

Wesleyan Missionary Church

Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. –James 5:14-17 (NKJV)

For those of you who don’t know, Dr. Goll lost his wife Michal Ann to cancer in 2008.

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Dr. Randy Clark, Eyewitness to Miracles: Watching the Gospel Come to Life (Thomas Nelson, 2018).

Dr. John R. Rice, Healing in Answer to Prayer (Sword of the Lord Publishers, 1944).

Daniel Jennings, ed. The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley (SEAN Multimedia, 2012).

Steve Thompson, You May All Prophesy (MorningStar Publications, 2007).

Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us? –Luke 24:32

It was our sicknesses that He Himself bore, and our pains that He carried. –Isaiah 53:4 (NASB)

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. –1 Corinthians 13:4-6

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.   –Isaiah 8:20 (KJV)

To one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. –1 Corinthians 12:8-10 (NKJV)

The disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it. –Mark 16:20

If you love Me, keep My commandments. –Jesus in John 14:15 (NKJV)

I was fully convinced of what I had long suspected, 1. That the Montanists, in the second and third centuries, were real, Scriptural Christians; and, 2. that the grand reason why the miraculous gifts were so soon withdrawn, was not only that faith and holiness were well nigh lost; but that dry, formal, orthodox men began even then to ridicule whatever gifts they had not themselves, and to decry them all as either madness or imposture. –John Wesley, Journal, August 15, 1750

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Making two possibilities a reality
Predicting the future of things we all know
Fighting off the diseased programming
Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries

Science fails to recognize the single most
Potent element of human existence
Letting the reigns go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith

Science has failed our world
Science has failed our mother earth
Science fails to recognize the single most
Potent element of human existence

Letting the reigns go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith
Science has failed our world
Science has failed our mother earth

Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things

Letting the reigns go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith
Letting the reigns go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith

Science has failed our world
Science has failed our mother earth
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things

Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Science has failed our mother earth
–System of a Down, “Science”–

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Dr. Dojcin Zivadinovic, “Wesley and Charisma: An Analysis of John Wesley’s View of Spiritual Gifts,” in Andrews University Seminary Student Journal, Volume 1, No. 2 (Fall 2015), pp. 53-71.

Dr. Thomas C. Oden, John Wesley’s Scriptural Christianity (Zondervan, 1994), pp. 210-211, 335.

Dr. Henry Rack, Reasonable Enthusiast: John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism (Epworth Press, 1989), pp. 420-436.

Dr. Jack Deere, Why I Am Still Surprised by the Voice of God (Zondervan, 2022).

Dr. Guy Chevreau, Catch the Fire: The Toronto Blessing, An Experience of Renewal and Revival (HarperCollins, 1995). Think what you want about that movement, but this book still explores Jonathan Edwards’ charismatic views very thoroughly.

John Wimber, Power Evangelism (Regal, 2009).

—. Power Healing (HarperCollins, 1987).

Samuel Rutherford, A Survey of the Spiritual Antichrist (London, 1648).

Thomas Boys, The Suppressed Evidence (London, 1832).

Jeff Doles, Miracles and Manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the History of the Church (Walking Barefoot Ministries, 2008), chs. 7-8.

Samuel Keimer, A Brand Pluck’d from the Burning (London, 1718).

Daniel Jennings, ed. The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley (SEAN Multimedia, 2012).

John Wesley, The Standard Sermons.

—. “Letter to the Rev. Dr. Conyers Middleton.”

Wikipedia, “Hyper-Grace Theology.” (REJECTS THE NEED FOR ONGOING REPENTANCE AND THE POSSIBILITY OF LOSING YOUR SALVATION). Hyper-Grace is characterized by holding to eternal security with a high emphasis on divine grace. Hyper-Grace advocates hold that the believer is not under the Mosaic law in any sense, that one’s sinful actions cannot hurt fellowship with God, denies the necessity of regular confession of sin in the life of a believer and holds to the belief that every Christian will have an equal possession in heaven. However, Hyper-Grace advocates reject viewing grace as a “license” to live in disobedience, viewing it as the only way to stay away from sin and emphasizing the natural consequences sin may have. Thus, advocates of the view have argued that grace is the most powerful motivator of obedience. Hyper-Grace rejects the idea of “Lordship Salvation,” arguing that it leads to self-examination and doubt. Advocates of Hyper-Grace deny that salvific repentance should be viewed as contrition and hatred for sin, instead being a change of mind, thus a synonym for belief in Christ. [Edit: I believe this Wikipedia article on hyper-grace is wrong to put Dr. Sam Storms in the hyper-grace camp. Bob Wilkin, a leading antinomian theologian, reviewed Dr. Storms’ book called Kept for Jesus in 2018, and put Storms into the lordship salvation Calvinist camp.]

—. “Münster Rebellion.” A hyper-grace charismatic, Anabaptist movement of terrorists in Germany, which turned Luther away from dream interpretation for a while.

Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
–Luke 13:7 (KJV)–

A prophetic dream about reprobation and the workplace.

Michael Wigglesworth’s The Day of Doom (1662), pgs. 72-83 – click for text.

You are the body of Christ, and members individually. –1 Corinthians 12:27

If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. –2 Corinthians 5:17

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. –Galatians 2:20

If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. –Hebrews 10:26-27

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Frank Viola, Who Is Your Covering? (Present Testimony Ministry, 2001).

David Wilkerson, Have You Felt Like Giving Up Lately? (Revell, 1980).

Ernest Williams, Systematic Theology, 3 vols (GPH, 1953).

Millard Erickson, Christian Theology (Baker Books, 2013).

Thomas Oden, John Wesley’s Teachings, 4 vols (Zondervan, 2014).

Ray Comfort, Hell’s Best Kept Secret (Whitaker House, 1989).

John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress In Today’s English (Moody, 1964).