Holy Spirit

The Wesleyan Church teaches that the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, fully divine and personal. The Spirit plays a central role in the entire ordo salutis (order of salvation): convicting of sin (prevenient grace), enabling belief, regenerating at conversion, witnessing to adoption as a child of God, and empowering sanctification. The Spirit indwells all believers and produces the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, and self-control.

While the Wesleyan Church is historically distinct from Pentecostal churches, it affirms that the spiritual gifts listed in Scripture continue to operate in the church, though the church does not emphasize glossolalia as a sign of the Spirit's baptism. Instead, entire sanctification—the Spirit's cleansing and empowering work—is understood as the primary 'baptism of the Spirit' in Wesleyan theology. The Spirit's unified work in all believers creates spiritual fellowship transcending denominational boundaries.