Dallas Willard on Contemporary Methodism
The Methodists were, of course, originally so called because they believed in methodical "godly exercise" as the sure route to spiritual maturity. John Wesley's writings and life spell out the "method" of the Methodists in detail. But almost nothing of it remains in current practice, and in this denomination we have one of the clearest illustrations of the tendency to admire a great Christian leader in words, but never to think of simply doing what he or she did in order to do the work of the Kingdom of God.
- Dallas Willard. The Spirit of the Disciplines. pg. 146.