I've just read Chapter 4 of Adam Hamilton's Revival: Faith as Wesley Lived It. There is so much good stuff in here. I am just blown away and humbled by John Wesley's passion. Rev. Hamilton describes Wesley's decision to "be more vile": to follow the lead of the younger Methodist George Whitefield and engage in field preaching to the impoverished coal miners around Kingswood, outside the walls of a church building, far past the vestiges of polite orderly English worship. This was a big step for John Wesley — and one to which I have to confess I still have not caught up going on 300 years later.
How can we submit today to "be more vile"? How should we?
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