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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><u><b>2009-03-12
- WESLEY'S CLASS MEETINGS</b></u></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="center">
<b>John Wesley's Accountability Discipleship Groups</b></p>
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The heart of Methodism during the life of John Wesley was the
Methodist Class Meeting. This was a small covenant discipleship
support group where members were accountable to each other. They
confessed their faults one to another, prayed for each other, and
stirred up one another to love and good works. Here the teachings of
the Bible were examined in light of actual personal experience. Here
leaders were nurtured and equipped.</p>
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Consider two outside reasons for seriously looking into these groups.
The French Revolution took place in 1789, nearing the close of
Wesley's life, and completing 51 years of the operation of the Class
Meetings. At that time an English Sociologist, himself an unbeliever,
made the following remarks: “Except for Wesley's Class Meetings,
the French Revolution and the guillotine would have leaped the
English Channel, and devastated Great Britain.</p>
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At that time Wesley saw 70,000 members in his Class Meetings,
composed of some 8 or so members each. They took place in England,
Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Wesley traveled over 50,000 miles on
horseback to oversee these and the churches. He wrote the majority of
his books on horseback. Membership in their churches was dependent
upon membership in these groups.</p>
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Then - prior to the formation of Communism in Russia in 1917, Lenin
visited England. He was profoundly impressed with Wesley's Class
Meetings. So much so - that he adapted the principle, and formed
Communist Cell Meetings.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><u><b>John
Wesley's Rules for the Band-Societies (drawn up Dec. 25, 1738)</b></u></p>
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</p>
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<b>The design of our meeting is, to obey that command of God,
“Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that
you may be healed.” - James 5:16. </b><span style="">To
this end, we intend:</span></p>
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<span style="">1. To meet once a week, at the
least.</span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="">2. To come punctually at the hour
appointed, without some extraordinary reason.</span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="">3. To begin (those of us who are
present) exactly at the hour, with singing or prayer.</span></p>
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<span style="">4. To speak each of us in order,
freely and plainly, the true state of our souls, with the faults we
have committed in thought, word, or deed, and the temptations we have
felt, since our last meeting.</span></p>
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<span style="">5. To end every meeting with
prayer, suited to the state of each person present.</span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="">6. To desire some person among us;
to speak his own state first, and then to ask the rest, in order, as
many and as searching questions as may be, concerning their state,
sins and temptations.</span></p>
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</p>
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<b>Some of the questions proposed to every one before he is admitted
among us may be to this effect:-</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
1. Have you the forgiveness of your sins?</p>
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</p>
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2. Have you peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ?</p>
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</p>
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3. Have you the witness of God's Spirit with your spirit, that you
are a child of God?</p>
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</p>
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4. Is the love of God shed abroad in your heart?</p>
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5. Has no sin, inward or outward, dominion over you?</p>
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</p>
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6. Do you desire to be told your faults?</p>
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<br>
</p>
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7. Do you desire to be told of all your faults, and that plain and
home?</p>
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<br>
</p>
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8. Do you desire that every one of us should tell you, from time to
time, whatever is in his heart concerning you?</p>
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</p>
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9. Consider! Do you desire we should tell you whatever we think,
whatever we fear, whatever we hear, concerning you?</p>
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</p>
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10. Do you desire that, in doing this, we should come as close as
possible, that we should cut to the quick, and search your heart to
the bottom?</p>
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<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
11. Is it your desire and design to be on this, and all other
occasions, entirely open, so as to speak everything that is in your
heart without exception, without disguise, and without reserve?</p>
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</p>
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<b>* Any of <u>the</u> preceding <u>questions</u> may be <u>asked</u>
as often as occasion offers; the four following <u>at every meeting:-</u></b></p>
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</p>
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1. <u>What known sins have you committed since our last meeting?</u></p>
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</p>
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2. <u>What temptations have you met with?</u></p>
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</p>
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3. <u>How were you delivered?</u></p>
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</p>
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4. <u>What have you thought, said, or done, of which you doubt
whether it be sin or not?</u></p>
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</p>
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</p>
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<b><u>Conditions of Membership into Methodist Society:</u></b></p>
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<u>There is one only condition previously required in those who
desire admission into these societies: <b>a desire “to flee from
the wrath to come, to be saved from their sins:”</b></u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
But, wherever this is really fixed in the soul, it will be shown by
its fruits. It is therefore expected of all who continue therein,
that they should continue to evidence their desire of salvation. Thus
we say to those who unite with us:</span></p>
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<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><u><b>You
are supposed to have the faith that “overcomes the world.” To
you, therefore, it is not grievous:</b></u></p>
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</p>
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<b>I. Carefully to abstain from doing evil; in particular:</b></p>
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<br>
</p>
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1. Neither to <u>buy nor sell anything at all on the Lord's day.</u></p>
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<br>
</p>
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2. To taste<u> no spirituous liquor</u>, no dram of any kind, unless
prescribed by a Physician.</p>
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<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
3. To <u>be at a word both in buying and selling.</u></p>
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<br>
</p>
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4. To <u>pawn nothing</u>, no, not to save life.</p>
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<br>
</p>
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5. <u>Not to mention the fault of any behind his back</u>, and to
<u>stop those short that do.</u></p>
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<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
6. To <u>wear no needless ornaments,</u> such as <u>rings</u>,
<u>earrings</u>, <u>necklaces</u>, <u>lace</u>, <u>ruffles</u>.</p>
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<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
7. To <u>use no</u> needless self-indulgence, such as taking <u>snuff
or tobacco</u>, unless prescribed by a Physician.</p>
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<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
<b>II. Zealously to maintain good works; in particular:</b></p>
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<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
1. To <u>give alms</u> of such things as you possess, and that <u>to
the uttermost of your power</u>.</p>
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<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
2. To <u>reprove all that sin in your sight</u>, and that in love
and meekness of wisdom.</p>
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<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
3. To <u>be patterns</u> of <u>diligence</u> and <u>frugality</u>,
of <u>self-denial</u>, and <u>taking up the cross daily.</u></p>
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<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
<b>III. Constantly to attend on all the ordinances of God; in
particular:</b></p>
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<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
1. To <u>be at church</u> and at the Lord's table <u>every week</u>,
and <u>at every public meeting of the Bands</u>.</p>
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<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
2. To <u>attend the ministry of the word every morning</u>, unless
distance, business, or sickness prevent.</p>
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<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
3. To <u>use private prayer every day</u>; and <u>family prayer</u>,
if you are the head of a family.</p>
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<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
4. To <u>read the Scriptures, and meditate therein, at every vacant
hour</u>. And:</p>
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<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
5. To observe, as days of <u>fasting or abstinence, all Fridays</u>
in the year.</p>
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<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
<b>These are the General Rules of our societies;</b><span style="">
all which we are taught of God to observe, even in his written word,
the only rule, and the sufficient rule, both of our faith and
practice. And all these, we know, his Spirit writes on every truly
awakened heart. </span><b>If there be any among us who observe them
not, who habitually break any of them</b><span style="">,
let it be made known unto them who watch over that soul as they that
must give an account. </span><b>We will admonish him of the error of
his ways; we will bear with him <u>for a season</u>: But then if he
repent not, he has no more place among us. We have delivered our own
souls. </b><span style="">- Wesley's Works Vol. 8,
pgs 270, 271, 272-274. </span>
</p>
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<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><u><b>Examples
of John Wesley's Discipline in Action:</b></u></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><u><b>Detailed
account of those who had left the society</b></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>:
</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">since
Dec. 30 - was 76:</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">14
(chiefly Dissenters) because otherwise their Minister would not give
them the sacrament.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">9
because their husbands or wives were not willing they should stay in
it.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">5
because their master and mistress would not let them come.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">7
because their acquaintance persuaded them to leave it.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">5
because people said such bad things of the society.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">9
because they would be laughed at.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">3
because they could not spare time to come.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">2
because it was too far off.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">1
because she was falling into fits.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">1
because people were so rude in the streets.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">2
because Thomas Naisbut was in the society.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">1
because he would not turn back on his baptism.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">1
because it was time enough to serve God yet.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><u><b>Detailed
account of those who were expelled from the society</b></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>:
</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">since
Dec. 30 - was 64:</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">2
for cursing and swearing.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">2
for habitual Sabbath-breaking.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">17
for drunkenness.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">2
for retailing spirituous liquors.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">3
for quarreling and brawling.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">1
for beating his wife.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">3
for habitual, willful lying.</span></span></p>
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for railing and evil-speaking.</span></span></p>
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for idleness and laziness.</span></span></p>
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for lightness and carelessness.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">-
Wesley's Works Vol. 1. p. 415 - March 4, 1741</span></span></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><u><b>The
Importance of Discipline:</b></u></p>
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</p>
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“Through all Cornwall I find the societies have suffered great loss
from want of discipline. Wisely said the ancients, 'The soul and body
make a man; <b>the Spirit and discipline make a Christian.'”</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
<b> Wesley's </b>Works Vol. 2, pg. 204.</p>
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“Dear Adam [Clark], <b>Discipline </b>is the great want in
Guernsey; <b>without which, the work of God cannot prosper. </b>You
did well to <b>set upon it without delay, and to be as exact as
possible.”</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
- Wesley's Works Vol. 13, pg. 101.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
<b>John Wesley would not employ time on people if they would not meet
in the Class Meeting:</b></p>
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<b> </b><span style="">May 26, 1759 ... “I found
the little society which I had joined two years since had so split in
pieces. In the afternoon I met several members of the praying
societies: and </span><b><u>showed them what Christian fellowship
was, and what need they had of it</u></b><span style="">.
About forty of them met me on Sunday the 27</span><sup><span style="">th</span></sup><span style="">,
in Mr. Gillies's Kirk, immediately after Evening Service. </span><b>I
left them determined to meet Mr. Gillies weekly, at the same time and
place. If this be done, I shall try to see Glasgow again: If not, I
can employ my time better.”</b><span style=""> -
Wesley's Works Vol. 2, pg. 482.</span></p>
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<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
“<b><u>Those who will not meet in class cannot stay with us.” </u></b><span style="">-
Wesley's Letters Vol. 7 pg. 154; Dec. 7, 1782</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><u><b>WESLEY'S
COVENANT PRAYER</b></u></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">I
am no longer my own, but Yours.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">Put
me to what You will, rank me with whom You will.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">Put
me to doing, put me to suffering.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">Let
me be employed for You or laid aside for You,</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">exalted
for You or brought low for You.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">Let
me be full, let me be empty.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">Let
me have all things, let me have nothing.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">I
freely and heartily yield all things to Your pleasure and disposal.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">And
now, O glorious and blessed God:</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">Father,
Son and Holy Spirit,</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">You
are mine, and I am Yours.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">So
be it.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">And
the covenant which I have made on earth,</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">let
it be ratified in heaven.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">Amen.</span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><u>
<b>NOTE:</b></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b> </b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Throughout
the years people have been interested to see the insight and steps
Wesley used, that produced through the Class Meetings such a surging
spread of vital results, that continued decade after decade. This
with the 100-year Moravian Revival at Herrnhut, are two of the
longest-continuing revivals of the church age. It will be clear to
readers that our present day and culture would require adaptation of
the rules of Wesley's day. Nonetheless, in areas of persecution such
as England experienced in Wesley's day, it is remarkable how closely
the above rules are followed in deeply persecuted lands of our day.
America and Canada are fast losing religious freedom. What will it be
like just prior to the soon return of our Lord? - Jim Watt</span></span></p>
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