A Definition of Gospel Preaching: Calvinistic or Arminian?
Angus Stewart examines the nature of gospel preaching by contrasting Reformed and Arminian approaches, using John Wesley's own preaching methodology as a case study to demonstrate how Arminian theology has shaped preaching practice historically. The article argues that Wesley's emphasis on universal divine love and the well-meant offer of salvation reflects a fundamentally different gospel proclamation than the Calvinistic approach, tracing how Wesley's influence propagated Arminianism through Methodism and subsequent movements.
I think the right method of preaching is this. At our first beginning to preach at any place, after a general declaration of the love of God to sinners and his willingness that they should be saved, to preach the law in the strongest, the closest, and the most searching manner possible; only intermixng the gospel here and there, and shewing it, as it were, afar off…. I mean by preaching the gospel, preaching the love of God to sinners, preaching the life, death, resurrection, and...
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