So, after my last post about John Wesley, Aldersgate, and conversion, I decided that I should make a start on questions about being saved. What does it mean to ‘be saved’? Is it saved from, saved for, saved to, or somehow just saved by? Are we saved once at a set moment in time? Or is it […]
What really happened on Aldersgate day? 24th May is celebrated by Methodists as Aldersgate Day. It is the date in 1738 John Wesley described his heart as being “strangely warmed” when, reluctantly attending a meeting, he listened to Luther’s Preface to the Epistle to the Romans being read out. He recorded that “I felt I did trust […]