United: Social Holiness

As a preacher in London, Wesley began to preach to laborers and workers in the streets. He soon saw the injustices of the life they were living. Impoverished, sick and without opportunities for their children, these laborers made up a lower class of people that the church largely ignored. Soon Wesley began to feed people, tend to the sick, and begin educational programs for children, all out of an old Foundry. Wesley believed that unless the gospel pushed Christians to care for the injustices around them, then it was not being fully lived out. In part 2, we will talk about Wesley’s growing concern with the social dimension of faith and the way that our faith still must take seriously the injustices of the world around us.