“Authentic Christianity, in the Wesleyan understanding, is a
Christianity of radical transformation.
It has nothing to do with straightening out one’s life, cleaning up
damaging addictions, or taking the moral high ground. These will likely be some of the consequences
of that transformation, but they are not the source of it. Christ alone is that source. When people come
to him in repentance and faith they enter a new relationship with God and a new
life in Christ.”
-Daniel L. Burnett,
In the Shadow of Aldersgate: An Introduction to the Heritage and Faith of the
Wesleyan Tradition, 2006 (quote found in
Michael Pasquarello III’s John Wesley a Preaching Life, p. xiii)
