John Wesley Converted: The Methodist Movement Begins
His heart felt "strangely warmed." That's how John Wesley described it—at 8:45 p.m., in a meeting room on Aldersgate Street, listening to someone read Luther's preface to Romans. Wesley had been a missionary. An Anglican priest. A failure in Georgia who'd sailed home defeated. But this moment, this odd sensation in his chest, launched something he couldn't control. Within fifty years, 70,000 Methodists in Britain alone. All because a man admitted his heart had been cold until one Wednesday evening when it wasn't anymore.
May 24, 1738
288 years ago
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