By Kenneth J. Collins
Wesley got here to the belief that actual Christians are these whose inward (and outward) lives were remodeled via the bountiful sanctifying grace of God -- what he termed actual Christianity--and this he strove to procure for himself. actual Christianity, as Wesley understood it, embraces either works of piety and mercy, the individual and the social.
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