While I’m a proud Methodist, it’s not often that I quote John Wesley in this space.
Yet a friend sent me these words from Wesley’s journal during an election year:
Thur. 6. – “I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them,
1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy:
2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against:
3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.”
John Wesley, The Works of John Wesley : Journals (electronic ed.; Albany,
OR: Ages Software, 2000).
Sounds like matters of Savior, cross, and resurrection were more important to Wesley than issues of state, candidate or race, doesn’t it?
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I like to imagine what would happen if individuals who are so wrapped up in publicizing slander of the other party were to spend even HALF as much time publicizing the good news.
It seems to me too many identify themselves more quickly and more vehemently to a political party than they have ever identified themselves as Christ-followers.