This week our Wesleyan Vile-tality series follows the early Methodist movement out of the church and into the open, where Wesley and the first Methodists went to the imprisoned, the laborers, and the outcasts. We see the same pattern in two scriptural examples: Abram, told to leave his country and his father’s house for a land God will show him only as he goes, and Matthew, called up from his tax booth to follow and to make room at his own table. Both are called by name, and neither has the full picture before saying yes. This week we consider what it means to answer that kind of call, to go where we cannot yet see the road, and to make room at the table for the people we sometimes keep at a distance.
Scripture: Genesis 12:1-9 (CEB); Matthew 9:9-13 (NRSVue)
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