The Essentials: Draw Near with Faith: Viewing the Lord’s Supper as an outward sign of an inward grace, Wesley urged the Methodists to take up the practice of the ancient church and to commune frequently. Since Wesley considered this means of grace as a “converting ordinance,” whereby God would communicate prevenient, justifying, and sanctifying grace to recipients as needed, the only requirement to receive this sacrament was reflected in the language of the Book of Common Prayer itself, which Wesley reproduced in his Sunday Service: “Ye that do truly and earnestly repent of your sins. . . . Draw near with faith.”
