The Methodist Church of KWT
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Isikhumbuzo sika John Wesley
24 May 1738 – 24 May 2024
_Ngawo lomhla ubu Wesile ugqiba 286 yeminyaka uYise wobuWesile wathi waguquka_
John Wesley’s journal entry for May 24, 1738, records his conversion at a society meeting in Aldersgate Street, London.
Each year, Wesleyans celebrate May 24 (or the following Sunday) as Aldersgate Day or Wesley Day.
Uthi uDyan Wesile, ndiyacaphula:
“In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.”
Nanga amazwi awawathethayo angenakuze alityalwe
“I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation.”
Waqhubeka wathi
“I began to pray with all my might for those who had in a more especial manner despitefully used me and persecuted me.
I then testified openly to all there what I now first felt in my heart. But it was not long before the enemy suggested, ‘This cannot be faith; for where is thy joy?’ Then was I taught that peace and victory over sin are essential to faith in the Captain of our salvation; but that, as to the transports of joy that usually attend the beginning of it, especially in those who have mourned deeply, God sometimes giveth, sometimes withholdeth, them according to the counsels of His own will.”
Ndiyicaphule kwi Journals zika John Wesley.
Enkosi
Bishop Bongani Skiet
Superintendent Minister
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