Wesleyan theology is, at the heart, a matter of the heart. John Wesley referred to the Methodist experience as "heart religion," and the spirit of Charles Wesley's music goes right to the nurturing of the heart, the depth of the heart in relation to God, the healing of the heart. 

1. First, the diagnosis. Let's call it spiritual cardiomyopathy, the hard heart. 

Cardiomyopathy—the muscles lose their ability to relax and contract, become stiff and brittle, literally a "hard heart." I know a little bit about cardiomyopathy, a little too close for comfort, actually. For my twin brother, Jim, the diagnosis came as a bit of a shock, though he says he should have seen the signs coming: 

...on the morning he was jogging on the Tampa Bay boulevard and had to sit down at a bus stop because he cou…