In this episode, Lane finally welcomes a biblical scholar to the show: Dr. David Carr, New Testament scholar and editor of Reading Scripture in Wesleyan Ways.

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In this episode, Lane and David discuss:

• The need for accessible resources for students, pastors, and lay leaders in the Wesleyan tradition.
• What it means to say "scripture is primary"
• Why biblical interpretation must connect with praxis
• And why Wesleyan theology resists systematic treatment

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What does it actually mean to be "saved"? On this episode of The Wesleyan Option, hosts Lane Davis, Joy J. Moore, and Rob Haynes dig into soteriology (the theological study of salvation) and John Wesley's distinctive way of holding justification and sanctification together. The conversation walks through the full order of salvation: prevenient grace, justifying grace, regeneration (the new birth), and sanctifying grace, and why Wesley refused to separate any of them.

Topics covered: Wesleyan theology, John Wesley, soteriology, prevenient grace, justifying grace, sanctifying grace, Christian perfection, social holiness, assurance, Methodist doctrine, N.T. Wright, James Logan, Theology and Evangelism in the Wesleyan Heritage.

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Arminianism lives! In this episode, Lane talks with Rev. Michael Carpenter about his book "The Four Alls."

The conversation gets into the challenge of compressing theology into marketable statements, the comparison between the Wesleyan Quadrilateral and The Four Alls, and the difference between Pollyannaish optimistic grace.

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