Holy Spirit and God Essay

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Susanna Wesley appealed to the idea of vocation in defending her practice of holding Sunday evening gatherings. Samuel Wesley spoke of the "inner witness" during his final witness. Describe a Wesleyan understanding of the Holy Spirit in conversation with one of these influences.

John Wesley's view of the Holy Spirit was a being that enabled the believer to love others as he loved himself and to enable the believer to participate in a universal spirit of divine love and grace (Wesley, 1980, p. 109). The Holy Spirit is a vehicle of grace that brings human beings to God by virtue of working upon their inner spirit. The fact that the Trinity has a component which is so mysterious underlines the notion that believers have a personal relationship with God that is manifest through faith alone. The Holy Spirit, like faith itself, is inwardly rather than outwardly visible. But it is the power of the Holy Spirit that empowers human beings to believe in Christ. Just as Christ enables human beings to be saved by virtue of his sacrifice, the Holy Spirit is a component of God that acts as an inner witness to God's grace.

Susanna Wesley's defense of holding Sunday evening gatherings underlines her own personal belief in the value of a personal relationship with God. Susanna Wesley, like her sons, believed that she has been the recipient of God's divine grace and held meetings in her house outside of an official church setting, even though she was not an ordained minister.

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Once again, this was contingent upon a belief in the need for believers to reach out to God within their hearts themselves, rather than rely upon an intermediary such as the church to facilitate such a relationship. In his own writings, John Wesley uses as an example the idea of two clergymen who were sick in body although not in spirit who tried to preach the gospel and when they were unable to do so because of their health, their parishioners were "providentially led" as they had accepted God in their hearts (Wesley, 1980, p. 110). Rather than relying upon human-created, human-generated authority, the reliance of the believer must always be upon the Holy Spirit and his or her own personal relationship with God. The Church has a role to lead people to Christ but the individual believer must actively engage in that relationship through….....

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