Scriptural Christianity (9:45 Contemporary)

The Essentials: Scriptural Christianity: Defining scriptural Christianity as “heart religion” and “the religion of love” that is ever associated with the Holy Spirit, Wesley was intent in 1744 upon applying the same pointed questioning to his Oxford congregation that Spangenberg had employed earlier with respect to him so effectively in Georgia. After a number of pointed and embarrassing accusations, Wesley concluded his sermon by calling the youth in that place “a generation of triflers, triflers with God, with one another, and with your own souls." William Blackstone, the famous judge and author, recorded of the event: “His [Wesley’s] notes were demanded by the Vice-Chancellor [William Hodges], but on mature deliberation it has been thought proper to punish him by a mortifying neglect." And Wesley himself noted in his Journal: “I preached for the last time before the University of Oxford. I am now clear of the blood of these men. I have fully delivered my own soul.”