S9E19: The Almost Christian (Wesley’s Standard Sermons #2)

In this message from Acts 26:28, Wesley brings to light the state of the almost Christian, and contrasts it with what it means to be altogether Christian.  Wesley is not timid in his words, nor is he speaking from a point of moral high ground, but rather he is warning his listeners from the depths of his own depraved experience.  He recognized in himself the very faults he was illuminating in the former while also giving testimony to the path laid out to arrive at the latter state.  Wesley's words are at once convicting and encouraging.  While we draw breath we are not yet hopeless before God, and thus he (Wesley) hopes to awaken those who slumber in the mere form of religion into the love of God shed abroad in their hearts.  

Acts 26:28

Preached at St. Mary’s, Oxford, before the University, on July 25, 1741.

Recorded on January 18, 2022

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