{"id":10368,"date":"2022-03-20T02:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10368"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:11","slug":"studying-wesley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10368","title":{"rendered":"STUDYING WESLEY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon brought me some of the books for my second semester classes. It looks like I will be a John Wesley expert soon.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg--DckSGTLiCni0wUlX29hPpfsW6z5ZKrsA4hvmFtQfTjvQNfB_QzHhtDBBwK0DbByQ2GRN0Vo_4OrGi3Gyl-6KBCjRwD0yxPP0QP3O6Os1jNK1YcOUS0c9gZ3UTIK1Lfs3sF3vtqcgkWN67xM4d85G64RfIREaErkmTRcnemUOUQ7JhcQa1m1fYuw=w640-h426\" alt=\"\" width=\"1421\" height=\"947\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am (mostly) looking forward to it. I imagine one can learn many useful things from a deep dive on John Wesley&#8217;s life and his approach to ministry and theology.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I got my M. Div. from Asbury Theological Seminary years ago and talk about Wesley was prominent there, of course. But at the time I was narrowly focused on youth ministry. I may not have paid as close attention to the man as he deserves.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know he was smart and sincere about his faith. I know he was methodical about spiritual discipline. Also, he faced a whole lot of conflict in his lifetime, but it never caused him to back down from the work of building the Kingdom that he felt God had called him to.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am curious to see where my opinion of Wesley and what he accomplished in his lifetime will stand a few months from now.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon brought me some of the books for my second semester classes. It looks like I will be a John Wesley expert soon. I am (mostly) looking forward to it. I imagine one can learn many useful things from a deep dive on John Wesley&#8217;s life and his approach to ministry and theology. I got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10370,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10368\/revisions\/10370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}