Since its inception, God’s Spirit has enlivened the Methodist movement.
In the 1720s John and Charles Wesley and friends at
Oxford University met together to deepen their Christian faith
through daily, practical spiritual disciplines. Derided by others as a
“new sect of Methodists” for their “methodical” ways of practicing
the faith and holding one another accountable to it, the small group
embraced the insult and persevered in their fellowship. And so, they
and the millions who followed after them have ever since been
known as “the people called Methodists.”
