John Wesley's #OnlineCommunion

One of the most fascinating aspects of John Wesley and the movement he and his friends started was that it was delightfully eclectic.  As Paul Chilcote has noted, Wesley was a “conjunctive” theologian; he held things together that other Christians tended to pull apart.  For instance, the sacramental and evangelical strands of the Wesleyan revival were aspects of Christian life that few Churches in Wesley’s day – and in our own! – managed to honor equally in a dynamic (i.e. powerful) tension.  The origins of the recently reignited online communion debate lie in Methodism’s historic tension between these two strands.