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The Holy Club
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The Holy Club
Charles Wesley
What did the member of the Holy Club do?
- Charles experienced a conversion on May 21, 1738.
- He was an English leader of the Methodist movement, son of Anglican clergyman and poet Samuel Wesley, the younger brother of Methodist founder John Wesley and Anglican clergyman Samuel Wesley the Younger.
- Charles Wesley is mostly remembered for the over 6,000 hymns he wrote.
- He ministered for part of his life in The New Room Chapel in Bristol. His house, located nearby, can still be visited
- With two or three others they celebrated communion weekly and fasted on Wednesdays and Fridays until 3 P.M.
- They set aside time for praying, examining their spiritual lives, studying the Bible, and meeting together. They also took food to poor families, visited lonely people in prison, and taught orphans how to read.
- Critics of the Holy Club on the Oxford Campus said: “By rule they eat, by rule they drink, By rule do all things but think. Accuse the priests of loose behavior. To get more in the laymen's favor. Method alone must guide 'em all When themselves "Methodists" they call.”
What is this club you speak of?
- The Holy Club was an organization at Christ Church, Oxford, set up by brothers John and Charles Wesley as a prayer group in 1729 to counteract the spiritual tepidity of the school.
- They focused on studying the Bible and living a holy life. Other students mocked them, saying they were the "Holy Club", "Sacramentarians", and "the Methodists"
John Wesley
The Members of the Holy Club
- John had a similar experience in Aldersgate Street just three days after Charles.
- He was an Anglican divine and a Theologian.
- He was elected a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford in 1726 and ordained a priest two years later.
- Returning to Oxford in 1729 after serving as curate at his father's parish, he led the Holy Club.
- His work and writings also played a leading role in the development of the Holiness movement and Pentecostalism.
The Club never exceeded over 25 people. but many of those made significant contributions, in addition to those of Charles and John Wesley. John Gambold later became a Moravian bishop. John Clayton became a distinguished Anglican churchman. James Hervey became a noted religious writer. Benjamin Ignham became a Yorkshire evangelist. Thomas Brougham became secretary of the SPCK. George Whitefield, who joined the club just before the Wesleys departed for Georgia, was associated both with the Great Awakening in America and the Evangelical Revival in England.
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