James Logan in his book How Great a Flame! sketches out what he calls the Wesleyan Evangelical Pattern. In it, he connects theological concepts with practices, experiences, and structures.
| Theological | Prevenient Grace | Justifying Grace | Sanctifying Grace |
| Practice | Preaching | Incorporation | Nurture |
| Experiential | Diseased Will | Healing | Vocation |
| Structural | Preaching Service | Class | Class & Society |
I like the table because it provides a sense of relationships among the various pieces of our Methodist inheritance. It also helps us to capture some important observations. Logan argues, for instance, that the primary location for experiencing Justifying Grace is not the preaching service, but the small group class meeting.
If that is so, it does make me wonder about the kind of preaching that should predominate at the preaching service, which has a special connection to the movements of Prevenient Grace in the table above.
For 21st Century Wesleyans, another question to ask is which of the cells and rows in the table need to be erased and filled in with different words and ideas.
The theological row should remain untouched. That is the foundation of the whole pattern. But the other nine boxes are worth talking about.
For instance, I find compelling the Wesleyan conception of the experience of healing from a diseased will, but are there other ways we might describe or understand the movement from being under Prevenient Grace to Justifying Grace?
Are there other practices we might adopt? Are there other structures?
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The doctrine of original sin is surely more humbling to man than the opposite: And I know not what honour we can pay to God, if we think man came out of His hands in the condition wherein he is now.
It is interesting that both times preaching is categorized it is in places that point to its role pre-conversion/justification and not after. Hopefully readers of the chart will still understand the necessity of preaching for the congregation’s growth in Christ’s likeness as well.
You raise a good point, Jonathan. I think the author’s point is that the class is the most common place where justification occurs, but I doubt he would say preaching plays no role in growth in grace.