John Wesley averaged three sermons a day for 54 years of preaching - a total of more than 44,000 times. In doing so, he traveled by horseback and carriage more than 200,000 miles, or about 5,000 miles per year. During all this traveling and preaching, he still managed to write and publish a 4 volume commentary on the whole Bible, a dictionary of the English language, a 5 volume work on natural philosophy, a 4 volume work on church history, histories of England and Rome, grammar books in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, and English; 3 works on medicine, 6 volumes of church music, 7 volumes of sermons and controversial papers. He also edited a library of 50 volumes known as the “Church Library”.
At age 83 he was angry to discover he could not write more than 15 hours a day without hurting his eyes, and at 86 he was ashamed to admit he couldn’t preach more than twice a day. During that 86th year he preached in almost every shire in England and Wales, and often rode 30-50 miles a day.
From Phil Cooke’s Blog - When You’re Tired of Writing
Think about it - he did all of this and he didn’t even have an iPhone.
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Gee wiz, Peter, I’m tired just reading that!
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slw,
I also read where he was so familiar with the Greek New Testament that he found it difficult to preach the Word in English.
One other note about Wesley is that he had something like 400 recorded healings in his ministry.
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And Wesley believed that the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues was for the present church.
After finishing seminary, he was still seeking God for salvation. Thankfully, he ran across the Moravians on a transatlantic journey, when his “eyes were opened.”
Wesley stands above all the rest!
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