(Photo: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)A volunteer from Harold Camping’s Family Radio holds a sign with warnings of Judgment Day at Times Square in New York City on May 13, 2011. (File)
Christianity is a faith with a long and detailed history, with numerous events of lasting significance occurring throughout the ages.
Each week brings the anniversaries of great milestones, horrid tragedies, amazing triumphs, telling tribulations, inspirational progress, and everything in between.
Here are just a few things that happened this week, May 20-26, in Church history. They include the first Presbyterian Church General in America, a born again spiritual experience for the founder of Methodism, and Family Radio’s failed end times prophecy.
Methodism Founder Has Born Again Experience – May 24, 1738
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(Photo: Wikimedia Commons)John Wesley (1703-1791), the founder of Methodism.
This week marks the anniversary of when Methodism movement founder John Wesley had what could be described as a born-again religious experience.
On the evening of May 24, Wesley agreed to attend a religious meeting happening at Aldersgate Street in London, where he heard a reading of Protestant reformer Martin Luther’s Preface to the Book of Romans.
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