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06/25/2003 Entry: "Johm Wesley's legacy"

Bene Diction sent me this great link on the legacy of John Wesley. Here's a taster:

That is not to deny the contradictions in Wesley's legacy which sit uncomfortably, not just between Anglicans and Methodists, who took separate roads after his death, but for all people of faith. For if he was a prophet of any lasting sort, it was in his challenge to break out of the comfortable laziness that can trap us in our institutions.

From the moment in 1738 when Wesley found his "heart strangely warmed" at an Aldersgate revival meeting, his part in the 18th-century evangelical revival - the second Reformation - was not to be afraid to challenge, frustrate and anger in equal measures. In short, to take Christianity out of the box.