{"id":3166,"date":"2022-05-22T03:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:10","slug":"sharing-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3166","title":{"rendered":"SHARING LIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In John Wesley&#8217;s treatise of 1775 called\u00a0<i>A Calm Address to Our American Colonies, <\/i>he begins by saying he had supported the colonists&#8217; &#8220;no taxation without representation&#8221; position early on, but after careful thought and reading, he had changed his mind.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the course of several pages, Wesley then makes a powerful case against the legitimacy of the American protest against British taxes. (Considering the matter from England&#8217;s perspective makes for interesting reading.)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And after writing it, he printed up thousands of copies and shipped them to America, at great risk to his own safety and reputation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The treatise begins with Wesley admitting he had been wrong. But now, &#8220;As soon as I received more light myself, I judged it my duty to impart it to others.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few paragraphs in, Wesley concedes, &#8220;I now speak according to the light I have. But if anyone will give me more light, I will be thankful.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I believe he is being sincere.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a humble and refreshing approach. He assumes those who disagree with him on this issue are nevertheless united with him in pursuit of &#8220;more light&#8221;. And perhaps there is more light to be had &#8211; by everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s bring this approach back to our present culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In John Wesley&#8217;s treatise of 1775 called\u00a0A Calm Address to Our American Colonies, he begins by saying he had supported the colonists&#8217; &#8220;no taxation without representation&#8221; position early on, but after careful thought and reading, he had changed his mind. Over the course of several pages, Wesley then makes a powerful case against the legitimacy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166","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=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3167,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions\/3167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}