Quote of the Week: John Wesley

 

Christianity is essentially a social religion . . . To turn it into a solitary religion, is indeed to destroy it.

—John Wesley

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Ecclesiastes 4:9–12 makes it clear that life is easier when lived alongside others. Isolation, though often convenient, is dangerous.  Maybe that’s why John Wesley and his brother Charles ministered side-by-side, often collaborating with George Whitfield and other contemporaries.

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If you’d like to hear more of what he had to say, Logos offers a wide selection of John Wesley’s writings. This quote and many others are available in 1,500 Quotations for Preachers, with Slides.

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