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Wesley's Time

Wesley's Time. Religion was intellectual assent to creeds Deism Denial of religion altogether Society was degraded Commoners worked 12-18 hrs/day Child labor was common Wages paid in alcohol Immorality and incest Tickets to/concessions at hangings. Wesley's Journey.

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Wesley's Time

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  1. Wesley's Time • Religion was intellectual assent to creeds • Deism • Denial of religion altogether • Society was degraded • Commoners worked 12-18 hrs/day • Child labor was common • Wages paid in alcohol • Immorality and incest • Tickets to/concessions at hangings

  2. Wesley's Journey • The Holy Club • In graduate school at Oxford • Very disciplined—time management • Achieve holiness by works • Trip to America • Met Moravians during storm on ship • Mission to Indians • Pastored in Georgia • Returned to England

  3. Wesley's Journey • Returned to England • Holy Club meeting on Aldersgate St. • Saved May 24, 1738 • Wesley's theology • All-defiling sin of man • All-embracing love of God • Atoning death of Christ • Assuring Spirit • All-conforming love of God

  4. Wesley's Emphases • Salvationheartchangelife change • Ecumenism • Discipline • Evangelism • Social concern • Simplicity of life and dress • Wesley's Holiness • A period of dying • A moment of death • A witness of the Spirit

  5. Methodist Church • Forced out of Anglican Churches • Began preaching in streets and fields • Worked among the poor • Evangelized the British empire • Evangelized the world • Methodist failures (late 1800's) • Affluence/Respectability • Liberal Scholarship • Loss of Vision/Vitality

  6. American Methodist Church • Settlers brought Methodism to America • Popular in South, West • Calvinism popular in New England • Neglect of Holiness (1800's) • Wars (Revolution, 1812) • Affluence • Westward expansion • Slavery • Holiness: Instantaneous or Progressive?

  7. Holiness Movement • Tuesday Morning Prayer Meeting—1835 • Prayer, testimony, requests • Became center for holiness seekers • Phoebe Palmer: "The Shorter Way" • Entire Consecration • Perfect yielding and constant reliance • Faith in God's promise • Feeling or not • Testimony to the experience

  8. Holiness Movement • National Campmeeting Association 1875 • Interdenominational • To advance Holiness • Wesleyan Methodist • Connection of Churches • Organized 1843 • Issues: • Slavery (Primary) • Episcopacy • Holiness (after Civil War)

  9. Free Methodist Church • Organized 1860 • Free from • Sin (Holiness) • Slavery • Secrecy (the Lodge) • Suppression from the Episcopacy • Structured worship • Opposed instrumental music

  10. Church of the Nazarene • Organized 1895 (local) • Focused on the poor • Very exuberant worship • Took in many independent churches • Tolerant of more variety of lifestyles • Pilgrim Holiness Church • Organized 1897

  11. Pentecostalism • Charles Parham • Left Methodist church in 1895 • Entire Sanctification • Faith healing • Laying on hands • Baptism of HG and fire • Church and school in Topeka, KS • Agnes Ozman: Chinese • William Seymour • Went to LA • "Unknown tongues," shaking, etc.

  12. Fundamentalism • Presbyterian Church • The issue: "Modernism" (Liberalism) • Biblical Inerrancy • Empiricism • Salvation • Fundamentalists pulled out (1920's) • Presbyterians • Baptists • Methodists

  13. Holiness conflicts • Many denominations and churches • Relatively isolated • Sectarianism • Denominational missions/evangelism • Western cultural changes • Affluence/materialism • Sabbath observance • Modesty • Entertainment

  14. Holiness conflicts • Progressive mindset • Evangelism top priority • Rethink application of principles • Holiness internal, not external • Conservative mindset • Evangelism w/o commitment is shallow • Truth is eternal • Society does not dictate standards • Separation from the world

  15. Holiness conflicts • Evangelistic emphasis • ID with those being reached • Avoid misunderstanding • Straight preaching • Informal worship • Conservative response • Opposition to church social activities • Emphasis on lifestyle and conduct • Preaching of holiness took on strong ethical emphasis.

  16. Holiness conflicts • Holiness was a common point • Differences were referred to as: • Conservative • Old fashioned • Radical

  17. Holiness conflicts • Wesleyan Methodist Church • Wedding ring OK'd in 1952 • Television OK'd in 1959 • Free Methodist Church • Music OK'd in 1943 • Wedding ring OK'd in 1951 • Nazarene Church • Plain wedding band was always OK • Television OK'd in 1952

  18. Holiness conflicts • Pilgrim Holiness • Wedding ring denied in 1950 • Chairman ruled: admonition only • Conservative movement • Needed support • IHC started in Salem, OH, 1951

  19. Conservative Holiness Movement • Nazarene Church • Bible Missionary Church, 1956 • Wesleyan Holiness Church • Bible Covenant • Free Methodist • Evangelical Wesleyan • United Holiness (Michigan) • Wesleyan Bible Church • Bible Methodist

  20. Conservative Holiness Movement • Pilgrim Holiness • Pilgrims and Wesleyans merged • NY Pilgrims • Midwest Pilgrims • Wesleyan Methodist Church • Allegheny Wesleyan • Tennessee Bible Methodist • Wesleyan Connection of Churches • Alabama Bible Methodist

  21. Conservative Holiness Movement • Alabama Bible Methodist Issues • Wedding ring • TV • Worldly trends in colleges • The National Council of Churches • Central government • Alabama and Ohio (Wes. Conn.) joined • Michigan (United Holiness) joined 1986

  22. CHM Today • Movement—broad coalition • IHC umbrella organization • No well-defined borders • No single voice • Large variety

  23. CHM Today • Dedication to biblical lifestyle • Informal worship • Genuine worship • Personal Piety • Evangelism

  24. CHM Today • Broader acceptance of other Christians • Relevance • Use of technology • Cultural issues • Music • Education/Biblical literacy

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