Perfect Love: Recovering Entire Sanctification—The Lost Power of the Methodist Movement
Perfect Love: Recovering Entire Sanctification—The Lost Power of the Methodist Movement is a wake-up call to the people called Methodists. According to John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, God raised up Methodism in order to spread the central teaching of entire sanctification. The church has offered an unbalanced understanding of the gospel for too long. The promise of forgiveness and pardon through faith in Jesus Christ has been emphasized in many parts of the body of Christ. Initial conversion and new birth are good news indeed! But they are also just the beginning of the life that is promised to us in the Bible. Jesus came not only so that we could be forgiven, but so that we could have life abundantly.
This book calls all Methodists—the spiritual descendants of the Wesleyan revival, regardless of contemporary denominational expression—back to who we have been at our best, in times when we have been a growing, vibrant, and Spirit-filled movement. It is time to retrieve Methodism’s lost treasure, the doctrine of entire sanctification. This doctrine speaks to the radical optimism that through the work of Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit, we can move from struggling to survive as Christians to thriving! Perfect Love provides an in-depth explanation of entire sanctification and helps readers pursue all that God has for us.
“I applaud this clear call to awaken ourselves to the blessing and gift of entire sanctification . . .”
General Brian Peddle, The Salvation Army International
“As I read Perfect Love, my heart leapt within me. My imagination cannot grasp the enormous outpouring God would do in this generation and those to come if we recover entire sanctification. May it be so, Lord!”
Dr. Jo Anne Lyon, General Superintendent Emerita, The Wesleyan Church
About the Author
Kevin M. Watson is a Pastor and the Senior Director of Christian Formation at Asbury Church in Tulsa, OK. He is also on the faculty at Asbury Theological Seminary, anchoring the Seminary’s Tulsa Extension Site. He has written extensively on discipleship and formation in the Wesleyan tradition, including the class and band meetings. His most recent book, Doctrine, Spirit, and Discipline, describes the purpose of the Wesleyan tradition and the struggle to maintain its identity in the United States.
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