Things Go Better with Coke– Thomas Coke (and Capt. Webb)

Things Go Better with Coke– Thomas Coke (and Capt. Webb) 2026-10-09T10:35:38-04:00 Ben Witherington These two men were not alone of course, and there were a series of less familiar names that Wesley encouraged to go to America and evangelize, for instance consider this letter from Wesley… Or consider this action taken at a Conference meeting… Wesley never took the title bishop for himself, but used the term General Superintendent, and below you see a list of the first series of them in the U.K. Asbury and Coke however had no problems assuming the title bishop, despite Wesley reproving them for doing so. As they told Wesley, there was no national church to react to, and so American Methodists would go their own way. It is interesting that even in the 1970s when I moved to the U.K. British Methodism was considerably more low church than in the Methodist Churches I grew up in, in the U.S. The British Methodists, mostly avoided liturgy, except when it came to the sacraments, and creeds were mostly missing in action too, and the service consisted of what some called the hymn sandwich— a hymn and prayer, and a hymn and a Scripture, and a hymn and an offering, and a sermon and did a menti...