John Wesley

"I left the United Methodist Church to find Methodism."

Why I’m No Longer a United Methodist If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in his Methodism, I have more. Yet this is not my fight. These are no longer my people.

To quote, "Perhaps it is the exaggerated Calvinist-Arminian divide of our era that keeps us from recognizing that Wesley’s spirituality is so deeply indebted to Puritan spirituality. But the fact is that Wesley’s approach to the Christian life is a Puritan approach."

Wesley as a Happy Puritan Dividing lines are sharply drawn between systems of theology that often share more in common than is usually known. In this article, Dr. Fred Sanders explores the similarities between John Wesley's reform movement and that of his Puritan predecessors.