At the end of the day the anointing will have a stigma. It will offend. John Wesley was offended by George Whitefield going to the fields to preach since it wasn’t in a regular church building and it hadn’t been done before. But John Wesley eventually went to the fields too. Wesley also criticized Whitefield because of the unusual manifestations that characterized Whitefield’s preaching—people falling down on the ground, laughing, shaking, some barking like dogs. Wesley rebuked Whitefield for allowing this and urged that, at least, Whitefield deal with what was patently of the flesh if not the
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