_“By holiness I mean, not fasting, or bodily austerity, or any other external means of improvement, but that inward temper to which all these are subservient, a renewal of soul in the image of God.”_ -John Wesley

The quote above comes from a letter written by John Wesley to his father, Samuel, in 1734. John was 31 at the time and the Methodist movement still a fairly new enterprise. But at the…