Training Tuesday: Jesus and Justice: How our Methodist tradition holds together evangelistic piety

Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Website: https://arenaweb.bwcumc.org/default.aspx?page=3452&event=5947

Presenter: Dr. Douglas Strong

For the last century or so, United Methodists (and members of other American churches) have been stuck in a polarized and divided religious environment, in which Christians champion either a personal gospel of evangelism and discipleship or a social gospel of justice advocacy.  This false dichotomy is neither scriptural nor true to the Wesleyan heritage.  Many eighteenth and nineteenth-century Methodists kept Jesus and justice together, due to their convictions about sanctification:  We can do the same! 

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