DR. BRANNON HANCOCK
Dr. Brannon Hancock serves as Dean of the Faculty at Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University, where he also teaches in the areas of worship, theology, and culture. He is an ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene and serves his local church as part-time associate pastor and leads worship every week with his wife, Gloria (a graduate of Wesley Seminary!). Brannon studied English Literature and Music at Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, TN, and completed his MTh and PhD at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
WORKSHOP:
Engaging Culture for the Sake of the Kingdom: This workshop explores distinctively Wesleyan ways of engaging with culture in our day and age as a way of encountering God and fulfilling the church’s mission to make disciples of Jesus Christ and spread scriptural holiness across the globe. In scripture, we see both Paul and Jesus looking to the culture of their day and age, drawing upon its symbols and metaphors, and using them redemptively to point toward the Kingdom of God. With healthy caution, John Wesley and the early Methodists held a similar posture. Christians today need not fear culture, or retreat from it, but should engage it with courage in the process of discipleship and Christian formation.
