Y’all know who John Wesley is, or was, I’m sure. The Anglican priest who founded Methodism? My paternal grandparents were Methodists and they really tried to make me into one but, for some reason, it didn’t stick. To this day when Evelyn and I visit a Methodist church, I will often turn to her as we are leaving and say, “There’s a reason I’m not a Methodist.”
Don’t get me wrong! Our church has an ongoing and productive ecumenical dialogue with the United Methodist Church and Methodists are fine people. I just don’t want to be one. There’s a reason I’m not a Methodist. To be honest, though, I wasn’t ever really sure what that reason was, but I was sure there must be one.
