John Wesley Redfield B T Roberts

Recklessness is not faith, nor is it one of the fruits of faith. It is rather the offspring of unbelief and despair.

Kelly Rosati A man named B. T. Roberts challenged the MEC in the 1860s to stop renting pews and to start being abolitionists. Basically to uphold a biblical standard of living and care for the poor. They didn’t like it so they kicked him out and he started the FMC. (1/2)

200th birthday! On this date in 1823, Benjamin Titus Roberts, principal founder of the Free Methodist Church, born in Gowanda, New York. #gc23

A reminder by B.T. Roberts (1823-1893) of God's care, and how remembering God's faithfulness may help us avoid slipping into despair. Learn more: bit.ly/4bUkK4u.

Experience first grows out of faith,and then greater faith grows out of experience. -B.T.Roberts.

“Constantine's calling himself a Christian, and pouring that flood of wealth and honour on the Christian Church, the Clergy in particular, was productive of more evil to the Church than all the ten persecutions put together.” Wesley

February 17 — I was carried to the Foundry and preached, kneeling (as I could not stand), on part of the Twenty-third Psalm; my heart was enlarged, and my mouth opened to declare the wonders of God’s love.

20 miles a day on foot in the name of God February 18, 1747

A Free Methodist perspective on #BlackHistoryMonth: Emma Ray was born a slave in Springfield, MO, and even after the Civil War grew up working as a domestic servant in Southern households. After marrying L.P. Ray at 28, the couple traveled around the country looking for work.

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"Jesus has always had a people—a plain, humble, earnest people—to preach the Gospel to the poor, and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the land." — Benjamin Titus Roberts, 1860