Francis Asbury: A Christian Movement In America

Asbury was instrumental, along with his faithful colleagues, in the growth of personal transformation (including those of minorities), vast numerical growth, and personal integrity, piety, and perseverance of the Methodist movement. He had a remarkable ability to connect with ordinary people, as he met with thousands of them as he crisscrossed the nation, riding more than one hundred and thirty thousand miles between his arrival in America in 1771 and his death in 1816. Asbury succeeded to oversee Methodism so that by the time of his death it was a major religious movement in America and continued to remain that way for most of the 19th-century. In the end, one cannot help but conclude that Francis Asbury’s efforts paid great dividends.