Beyond These Walls 2025

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.