When the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent and in those days told no one any of the things they had seen. John Wesley believed that the most important part of a faithful life was not what you believed, but how you lived. He called this holiness. It was divided into acts of piety and acts of mercy.
Piety is worship, prayer, meditation, devotional reading of the Bible and other texts.
Acts of Piety are still important to Methodists nearly three hundred years after Wesley's birth. Acts of mercy are helping the poor, feeding the hungry, visiting the sick, working for justice for those in the laboring classes. Mercy is also still very much a part of how Methodists do religion. In fact, Methodists are more engaged than most churches in social justice issues because of John Wesley. John Wesley knew that theology never saved anybody.