{"id":34395,"date":"2022-09-10T21:26:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wesleys-rules-for-preachers\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T21:26:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:26:51","slug":"wesleys-rules-for-preachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wesleys-rules-for-preachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wesley&#8217;s Rules for Preachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent blog entry, Nathan Finn shares this: &#8220;Wesley laid out 12 rules for preachers who wished to serve as Methodist itinerants. While some of the rules themselves are not strictly applicable to a settled, non-Methodist ministry, there is still much wisdom to be gleaned from the principles Wesley articulated. The following is taken from John Telford&#8217;s <em>The Life of John Wesley<\/em>, which is available online at the Wesley Center for Applied Theology at Northwest Nazarene University.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among Wesley&#8217;s rules:<br \/> ~ Be diligent. Never be unemployed. Never be triflingly employed. Never while away time, nor spend more time at any place than is strictly necessary.<\/p>\n<p>~ Believe evil of no one unless fully proved; take heed how you credit it. Put the best construction you can on everything. You know the judge is always supposed to be on the prisoner&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>~ Speak evil of no one, else your word, especially, would eat as doth a canker; keep your thoughts within your own breast till you come to the person concerned.<\/p>\n<p>~ Be ashamed of nothing but sin; no, not of cleaning your own shoes when necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/wesleys-rules-for-preachers\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent blog entry, Nathan Finn shares this: &#8220;Wesley laid out 12 rules for preachers who wished to serve as Methodist itinerants. While some of the rules themselves are not strictly applicable to a settled, non-Methodist ministry, there is still much wisdom to be gleaned from the principles Wesley articulated. The following is taken &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wesleys-rules-for-preachers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wesley&#8217;s Rules for Preachers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}