The Methodist movement was born in a time of spiritual apathy and a distant, lifeless church. Faith had become cold, intellectual, and detached from personal experience. But then came a revival—one that warmed hearts, transformed lives, and set the church ablaze with love. John Wesley’s own encounter with God at Aldersgate was not just personal—it became a model for what faith was meant to be. A faith that wasn’t just about right belief (orthodoxy) or even right action (orthopraxis), but also about right experience—orthopathy, the deep work of God in our hearts and lives. In his latest article, Maxie Dunnam explores how Methodism offered an answer to the church’s greatest failures and why its message is just as urgent today. Wesley insisted that “true Christianity cannot exist without the inward experience and the outward practice of justice, mercy, and truth.” So what does that mean for us now? Click below to read and reflect on what it means to have a heart strangely warmed in our time.

Posted by Paulo Lopes at 2025-04-01 18:45:03 UTC