John Wesley's 'Social Holiness'
"Wesley's “social holiness” did not simply mean “social justice.” Social holiness begins in Christian community, and therefore has everything to do with the internal life of the church. The fellowship of believers is the place where social holiness is cultivated and exercised, but it also spills over the boundaries of the church and reaches out to those who are outside of the fellowship." - James Pedlar "John Wesley and the Mission of God, part 5: social holiness" - We are called to break down barriers... though having shifted from days of old, class barriers exist today. Today slender individuals are valued while the overweight are not. Successful, and people of position, are valued, while those who fail, and those who are weak, are lightly esteemed, even avoided. Those who seem intelligent are prized over the ignorant and uneducated. However, in the kingdom of God this should not be. Children of the kingdom are not valued on the bases of who that person i