Core tenet of Methodism
Grace is for every person.
Arminian to the bone: Christ died for all, and no one is excluded by decree.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Methodism's Arminian commitment — that grace is offered to everyone and can be accepted or resisted — put John Wesley in direct and public conflict with the Calvinism of his friend George Whitefield. Prevenient grace is Wesley's technical term: God's grace goes ahead of any human response, enabling a free choice that would otherwise be impossible. It is the theological reason Methodist preaching is invitational in a way Reformed preaching is not.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
Anyone can be saved, and anyone can walk away.
The Church of the Nazarene
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Grace does the work; your effort is mostly getting out of the way.
Hinduism
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No one made this, and no one is running it.
Buddhism
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The Tirthankaras cannot help you.
Jainism
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A person is built with two inclinations, and neither is a devil.
Judaism
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Salvation is grace, not wage.
Christianity
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