S9E23: Scriptural Christianity (Wesley’s Standard Sermons #4)

The text of Wesley's sermon was so incendiary, preached before the students and administration of Oxford, that when he published it as a pamphlet, he included the following disclaimer: "It was not my design, when I wrote, ever to print the latter part of the following Sermon: But the false and scurrilous accounts of it which have been published, almost in every corner of the nation, constrain me to publish the whole, just as it was preached; that men of reason may judge for themselves."  Indeed, Wesley points to the first century Church as the model of Christianity as recorded in the book of Acts, and then asks the question: Is there indeed any nation on earth that can call itself a Christian nation?  These words, though archaic in style, are just as relevant for our society today.  And so let this sermon serve as a call to righteousness, that we might once again learn the model of scriptural Christianity.

Edited anonymously at the Memorial University of Newfoundland with corrections and other modifications by Ryan Danker and George Lyons of Northwest Nazarene University.

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Ezekiel 33:4; Acts 4:31

Recorded on April 18, 2023

Scriptural Christianity - Full sermon text

Commentary by Bob Kaylor on Wednesdays with Wesley

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