ABSTRACT
John Wesley's withdrawal from his work in Georgia was precipitated by, and advanced further, crises, both personal and spiritual. The period concluded with what became, for Wesley, the epoch-making experience at the meeting at Aldersgate Street on 24 May 1738. There is no evidence to suggest that the experience caused any change in Wesley's theology of ministry. The renewed vigour and evangelistic zeal with which he subsequently sought to convert the world, however, became the motivating force behind many an unusual development. John Wesley wrote to his brother Charles, on 23 June 1739:
I have both an ordinary call and an extraordinary. My ordinary call is my ordination by the bishop ... My extraordinary call is witnessed by the works God doth by my ministry.!
