John Wesley Addresses the Disaffiliators

My friend Dean McIntyre shared a quote from John Wesley that is very applicable for today:

"I dislike your speaking of yourselves as though you were the only [ones] who know and taught the Gospel; ...But what I most dislike is your littleness of love...your want [lack] of union...your want of meekness, gentleness, long suffering; your impatience of contradiction; your counting every [person] your enemy that reproves or admonishes you in love; your bigotry and narrowness of spirit, loving in a manner only those that love you...your censoriousness...  of all who do not agree with you; in a word, your divisive spirit.”

John Wesley

Letter to the perfectionists in London

November 2, 1762

Originally at Musings of a Musical Preacher Read the original ↗