'Are you a Christian?'

Ask my neighbor.’ How do your beliefs translate into actions of loving your neighbor? If someone asked your coworker if you were a Christian, what would he or she say? If someone asked your spouse or kids if you were a Christian, what would they say? We are called to live an integrated life in the Lord with our outer actions matching our inner convictions. 

The Methodist DNA is to live an integrated life. John Wesley said, ‘There is no holiness but social holiness.’ He understood the need for our actions to match our faith in Christ. John Wesley fasted twice a week to have money to give to the poor. He humbled himself and collected alms to help feed and clothe those in the debtor’s prisons. The early Methodists started the first free pharmacies to tend to the sick. They started Sunday School which was the first free public education available to the working family. Our own Susie May Munholland ministered at the Mary Wren Mission near the cotton mills in the Irish Channel teaching classes to young mothers and serving meals. She was instrumental in founding Munholland so that there would be a Methodist church to serve the Metairie area. We continue today raising up children, youth, and adults who serve in the local community.

‘The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.’ ~ Henry Martyn.

Seeking to live and integrated life.

Jonathan