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John Wesley experienced his heart being strangely warmed on the 24th of May 1738 inside a Moravian chapel on Aldersgate Street in London. This moment marked the beginning of the movement that would eventually split from the Church of England and spread across the globe.
Fellow students mocked Wesley and his brother Charles for their methodical approach to religion and called them Methodists. The name stuck even as they sought reform within Anglicanism rather than separation from it.
Methodist theology centers on the belief that salvation is available to all people through free will. John Wesley rejected Calvinist predestination which claimed God had chosen only a select group for eternal bliss.
Total membership reached 56,000 in Britain by 1791 and rose to 360,000 by 1836. By 1836, membership in Britain had climbed from 56,000 to 360,000.
By 1783, Antigua hosted its first wooden chapel seating 2,000 people under preacher John Baxter. This location served as a hub for Caribbean Methodism after Nathaniel Gilbert met John Wesley in Wandsworth on the 15th of January 1759.