John Wesley was orthodox in his view of humanity. He knew the Scriptures taught that human beings had been deeply damaged by the experience of sin. This damage was deeply imbedded in the human family.
But Wesley also had an orthodox view of God where he declared everywhere he went that God's Grace was greater than our damaged nature.
For Wesley it came down to a basic proposition that God's grace was sovereign over human nature. In other words, God's grace has the power to repair the damage to the human family caused by sin. This repair is known as being "born again (John 3:3)," brining life where there was death (John 10:10 & Ephesian 2:1), "regeneration and renewal (Titus 3:5)."
Wesley's assertion was that God's grace was sovereign and not simply that God is sovereign in some abstract way.
RELECT: Do we have the notion that God's grace is sovereign over human nature and thereby believe that God's grace can transform every area of our life? How sovereign is grace in this area of our understanding and existence?