Abstract
Tenets of Wesleyan Evangelical Revival in Mainline Protestant Churches in Nigeria
Highlights
The Wesleyan Evangelical Revival of the 18th and 19thCentury England and America was the precursor of the Protestant mission churches in Nigeria
It is the thesis of this paper that mainline Protestant churches in Nigeria have deviated from the tenets of Evangelicalism, which is the root of their theology and liturgy and have followed after Prosperity Gospel with its undue emphasis on materialism without a corresponding life of righteousness and holiness
Three clergymen from each church and 8 parishioners, making a total of 20 persons were randomly selected for interview. 10Structured interview questions were designed to find out indices of Wesleyan Evangelical revival (See Appendix 1)
Summary
The Wesleyan Evangelical Revival of the 18th and 19thCentury England and America was the precursor of the Protestant mission churches in Nigeria. According to Achunike [1], “Wesley is the spiritual and intellectual father of modern Holiness and Pentecostal Movement that issue from Methodism within the 19th century.”Achunike [1] stresses that Wesleyan theology is based on two crisis experience of Conversion or Salvation from actual committed sins, and Sanctification or Cleansing from the Adamic nature, the inbred or inward root of sin, which Wesleyans variously call “Entire Sanctification,” “Second Blessing,” Perfect Love,” according to Burgess[2]. This was the brand of Christianity transported to Nigeria. Worse still, was that some of the converts of these earlier church denominations were still holding on to their beliefs and ideas about the traditional worship in their former ways of life and manner
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