Pilgrimage Ponderings
Wesley and Church Structures
I've been thinking today, from my confirmation-level understanding, mind you, about how Wesley thought and felt about his decision to break with the Anglican structure of the church in order to ordain Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury so that they could serve God and extend the Gospel into a place where the Anglican church could no longer go.
I find myself wondering if he agonized over that decision, or if it seemed clearly to be the leading of God's Spirit for the time. I wonder if he looked back later on that decision, after the consequences and ramifications of that choice were more fully known, with joy or with regret. And I wonder if there is any wisdom to be gleaned from John Wesley for the issues facing our church today.
