As we continue “Wesleyan Vile-tality,” we go back to the years before Bristol, when John Wesley and a small group of Oxford students spent their time among prisoners the rest of the city preferred to forget. This week explores what it means to show up for someone the world has written off, why trust between unequal people requires more than credentials, and how the very word “Methodist” was born from solidarity with the forgotten. Luke 4 and Hebrews 13 frame the call: good news to the poor, release to the captives, and remembering those in prison as though you were there with them.
Scripture: Luke 4:16-2142 (CEB); Hebrews 13:1-8 (NRSVue)
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