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Podcast: Knowing God With Heart and Mind
Episode: JESUS: The Lord is Near
Description: Whenever I begin to teach about our Wesleyan heritage as United Methodists, I am usually a little afraid of losing some of my audience. I imagine that some will think it's a lot of boring information about a stuffy old English guy from the 1700s who doesn't matter anymore. I imagine some folks groaning that they'd rather hear about contemporary, lively, and biblical Christianity rather than all that dead religion. Ironically, it is precisely that kind of complaint that led John and Charles Wesley to exercise a new (then) undertaking that intentionally infused biblical precedence and Spirit-driven energy into...