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- John Wesley was an ordained Anglican minister who served as a missionary in England and the United States, spreading the Christian faith and visiting the poor, sick, and imprisoned in the 1700s. He preached a message of spiritual discipline.
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Jun 19, 2018 · John Wesley is known for two things: co-founding Methodism and his tremendous work ethic. In the 1700s, when land travel was by walking, horseback or carriage, Wesley logged more than 4,000 miles a year. During his lifetime he preached about 40,000 sermons. Wesley could give today's experts lessons in efficiency.
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May 23, 2023 · John Wesley spent just two years in the American colonies, and he had a pretty dismal time of it. Yet that trip led to major changes in Wesley's life, and his work in turn did much to shape the religious climate in America.
John Wesley (/ ˈ w ɛ s l i /; [1] 28 June [O.S. 17 June] 1703 – 2 March 1791) was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Methodist movement that continues to this day.
In 1784, he began ordaining ministers for America. The Methodist movement grew, yet he affirmed that Methodists in England should remain Anglican in 1786. John Wesley – founder of Methodism – died on March 2, 1791, and is buried at City Road chapel in London.
May 13, 2022 · John Wesley was an ordained Anglican minister who served as a missionary in England and the United States, spreading the Christian faith and visiting the poor, sick, and imprisoned in the 1700s. He preached a message of spiritual discipline.
- Betty Dunn
An ordained Anglican clergyman, Wesley adopted unconventional and controversial practices, such as field preaching, to reach factory laborers and newly urbanized masses uprooted from their traditional village culture at the start of the Industrial Revolution.
On board was a young Anglican minister, John Wesley, who had been invited to serve as a pastor to British colonists in Savannah, Georgia.
