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John Wesley’s “Directions for Renewing Our Covenant with God”, first published in 1780, contains his instructions for a Covenant Service adapted from the writings of Puritan Richard Alleine and intended for use in Methodist worship as “a means of increasing serious religion.” Central to the Service is the invitation for total commitment of one’s life to God, reflective of Wesley’s holistic spirituality. Frank Whaling, in his introduction to the Classics of Western Spirituality volume on John and Charles Wesley, cites the Covenant Service in a list of ten key deposits of spirituality inherited from the Wesleys, second only to Charles’ hymns. That Whaling and others would give it such priority in discussions of Wesleyan spirituality may be due to the way in which it embodied the heart or core of the spirituality of the Wesleys—“utter dedication of the total life to God,” “the complete giving to God of the whole self”. Davies goes so far as to claim that the Covenant Service “expresses better, probably, than any other Methodist practice, the Methodist ethos."
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KeywordsJohn Wesley’s Covenant Renewal Service, Christian life, Biblical Covenant, Sinai Covenant
Periodical TitleDidache
Periodical Year2011
Periodical MonthFebruary
Periodical Volume Number10
Periodical Issue Number02
Periodical ISSN1536-0156
Peer Reviewed?Yes
Place of PublicationKansas City, Missouri
EditorDean Blevins
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