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The Four Alls
A Fresh Look at a Methodist Heritage
At a time when many Methodists find it challenging to express what sets their tradition apart, The Four Alls offers a compelling invitation to reconnect with the essential convictions that have always defined Wesleyan spirituality.
Early Methodists proclaimed a more accessible and powerful vision through what they called the Four Alls:
- All must be saved
- All can be saved
- All can know they are saved
- All can be saved to the uttermost
This grace-centered framework once ignited a transformative movement. Though nearly forgotten today, these Four Alls continue to hold remarkable power to renew conviction and strengthen witness in the church today.
Accessible yet historically rich, pastoral yet theologically grounded, The Four Alls is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand, embrace, and live out the transformative vision at the center of Wesleyan faith.
Praise for The Four Alls
Bishop Laura Merrill
Bishop of the Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conferences of The United Methodist Church
"In a day when the purpose of the church can seem shifting or unclear, Carpenter shares the life-giving heart and promise of the Wesleyan tradition. Whatever we do as Christian people and communities should be grounded in this proclamation of the power of God's love to heal and save the whole world."
David Worthington
Global Ambassador of Methodist Heritage Sites for the General Commission on Archives & History of The United Methodist Church; former Director of The New Room in Bristol, England
"Michael Carpenter's book provides a fantastic and concise overview of the Four Alls. It is a helpful resource for individuals to develop their own knowledge and understanding of this wonderful summary of Methodist theology and Wesleyan evangelicalism, and it also a means of exploring how we, as the church today, could and should be using the Four Alls to frame our engagement with the world in the twenty-first century. This book encourages us to reconnect with Wesleyan roots and to be bold in our proclamation of the Four Alls as we seek 'to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.'"
Henry "Hal" Knight III
Professor Emeritus of Wesleyan Studies and Evangelism, Saint Paul School of Theology
"Michael Carpenter's recovery of the Four Alls fills a deep need for those of us in the Wesleyan tradition. Here is something to believe in and to hope for. Here is the fullness of all that God has promised presented with clarity and passion. This book invites us to reclaim our faith in Wesley's optimism of grace. All Methodists and Wesleyans should read it and take up that invitation."