John Wesley's Prevenient Grace

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John Wesley’s work confronted the forces of Reformed tradition. It was during this time prevenient grace introduced, the unmerited favor of God given to humanity for salvation, which is available to all. Prevenient grace presents an awareness to the power of Scripture when it read by a heart wavering between faith and sin.
Prevenient grace helps to alleviate the perception that humanity is so wicked that it must confront predestination in order to receive salvation. Human depravity extends to all people that block them from identifying their need for salvation or to gather the power for penitence. This recognition of power comes from God to all people everywhere. Wesley states, “Every salutary human action or virtue, from the earliest expression of faith to the highest degree of sanctification, is grounded in the prior empowering of God’s grace.” Wesley rejected Calvin’s view of predestination grounded in God’s foresight, not his will. God predestine humanity to respond in faith to the gift …show more content…

People do not reject God because of unattainable evidence, but because humanity’s nature is insubordinate. “The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.” (I Cor.2:14 ESV) God’s love does not delight in the death of a person who does not accept Jesus as their Savior. “For if you are dead, and altogether unable to make yourself alive; then if God has absolutely decreed he will make others only alive, and not you, he hath absolutely decreed your everlasting death— you are absolutely consigned to damnation.” Wesley accepted it was the Light, which led to the salvation of humanity, known as prevenient grace. “The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.” (John 1:9-10

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