...actually happened on 24 May 1738 at the Moravian meeting in Aldersgate Street. It happened right on cue 'where one was reading Luther's Preface to the Epistle to the Romans', which by this time was also the familiar preface to evangelical conversion over much of Protestant...

...over-identification with one side of his dilemma (cf. Kallstad, 1974). His report testifies to this process: 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...

...of God. One evening he went reluctantly to a meeting of a Christian society in London where someone was reading Luther's preface to the epistle to the Romans. About a quarter of the way through the reading, the light suddenly dawned in John Wesley's soul. The man who was destined...

...when he attended a Moravian gathering: "I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. While he was describing the change which God makes in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my...