John Wesley Preaching at His Father's Grave

St. Andrews is a beautiful church preserved in time. It was there where John Wesley returned one day in the 1840's and asked the current rector permission to deliver a message in the old church. When he was denied he told the rector that he would deliver the message on the only free piece of land near by. It was six feet from the door of the church that John Wesley climbed a top of his father's grave and once again gave the message of "you must be born again."

Open-Air Preaching

Is It Biblical?

Historical Examples

The Motive

The Message

The Audience

The Fruit

"I am well assured that I did far more good to my Lincolnshire parishioners by preaching three days on my father's tomb than I did by preaching three years in his pulpit." ... "To this day field preaching is a cross to me, but I know my commission and see no other way of preaching the gospel to every creature".
- John Wesley

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