04.13.21 | Advocacy and Action, Training Tuesdays
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!