JOHN WESLEY OPPOSED THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

John Wesley (1703-1791) is famous for his impact on American Christianity. He was the founder of the Methodist Church and modern Evangelism.

A Pew Research survey done in 2021 found that about 40% of Evangelicals believe that America is divinely inspired. These people would be surprised to discover that John Wesley actually opposed the American Revolution.

In his 1775 “A Calm Address to Our American Colonies,” John Wesley published three months after there was fighting at Lexington and Concord, Wesley rebuked the American claim that taxation was tyranny, and he pointed to the many liberties the colonists enjoyed under British rule.

So was the founding of America ordained by Jesus? If you look into a concordance that's known as an index of the Bible and look up " United States of America," there is no mention of the United States of America in the Bible. An even more curious fact is that the New Testament was written in Greek. The people who wrote the New Testament were obviously aware of Athenian Democracy, but the word "democracy" does not appear in the Bible.

LINKS:

John Wesley (Wikipedia)

John Wesley and the Indians (The South Georgia Conference)

4 Reasons Why John Wesley Opposed the American Revolution (Patheos, 7-5-17)

Why John Wesley Opposed the American Revolution (Current, 7-5-17)

John Wesley’s Rebuke to the Rebels of British America: Revisiting the Calm Address (Academia.edu)

John Wesley's Big Impact on America (Christianity.com)