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Methodist / Wesleyan

Devout for Methodists

Grace for all — holiness of heart and life in the Wesleyan way.

Wesley kept a journal every day of his adult life, in shorthand, and expected the people called Methodists to examine themselves in writing too. A devotional app with a private journal at the centre of it is a more Methodist idea than it might look.

Wesley's own voice

Devout asks which tradition you stand in, and answering Methodist brings Wesley with it. The forty-four Standard Sermons — the doctrinal corpus of Methodism — are in the Library in full, free to read, each with a summary and a representative passage. Read in sequence they are a complete theology of the Christian life.

Charles Wesley is here too, and Francis Asbury, who carried the movement across the American frontier on horseback.

Grace for all

The reflection is written in the Wesleyan grain: prevenient grace, the offer genuinely open to everyone, holiness of heart and life as something actually expected rather than politely hoped for. Where a passage bears on assurance, or on whether grace can be resisted, you get the Methodist reading rather than a neutral one.

What the morning looks like

One page. A passage of Scripture, a reflection, a voice from the Christian past, and a question waiting in a private journal — private in the strict sense: nobody else can read it, there is nothing to share, and it exports whenever you ask.

What it does not do

It is not a class meeting, and it cannot be. Methodism has always held that Christian growth happens among people who know you well enough to ask awkward questions, and an app is no substitute for that. This is the private half of the discipline, not the whole of it.

What you are given

Writers of this tradition in the Library

Held in full, with their lives and their words. Read them whenever you like.

Devout also keeps a directory of 14,714 Methodist / Wesleyan churches, searchable by town.

Seeing whether it suits you

The whole of Devout is open for seven days — the readings, the Library, the journal, all of it — with no card taken and nothing to cancel if you decide against it.

Begin your 7-day preview

No credit card required. You choose your tradition on the first screen, and can change it later.