The Wesley Foundation is a place that accepts all that submit to the authority of God with the recollection that we’re all human. Broken and undeserving of such a place to reside as the day approaches when the Father will return. I’ve seen through many days of living in this community what true redemption and repentance looks and feels like.
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I share all of this because I want you to know what it’s like for me to be a part of the Body of Christ, to go to church and to be in relationship with the Christians around me at any given moment. There are entire generations of Christians who have grown up and died and before they died raised up other generations not clothed in Christ or the new self but in racist systems and mindsets, in the low thoughts and earthly passions of the old self. When you go to church on Sunday (and you should; if I can, there’s no good reason why you can’t), I want you to take note of your experience compared to mine. I want you to remember what I suffer; I think this is a faithful request, for before Paul called us to remember his chains, Christ Himself called us to remember the suffering He endured first and endured for us.
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If you call yourself a Christian, racism is your problem. Racism is your problem because I call myself a Christian, and it’s my problem, and you and I and all Christians are members of the same Body, and Paul tells you in Hebrews to remember those who are mistreated, since you are also in the Body (13:3). Racism is your problem because people who also count themselves as members of this Body and call themselves Christians practice racism right now, every day, long after racism has been declared “dead” by the world and longer after the Greek and Jew, slave and free have been declared one in Christ by Christ. Racism is your problem because racism boldly, blatantly, and shamelessly rejects everything to which we’re called as Christians. Racism is your problem because it flies in the face of the new self for the sake of the fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, greed, anger, wrath, malice, slander, abusive language, and lies of the old self. Racism is your problem because parts of our Body think it isn’t their problem, and those Christians need a faithful witness.
Racism is your problem because you are part of Christ’s Body, and Christ has witnessed that this is His problem. Its Christ’s problem when He asks a Samaritan woman for a drink of water and she responds, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” for Jews did not share things in common with Samaritans--yet Jesus was making all things new, all things shared and in common among those who believe in Him (John 4). Racism is Christ’s problem when He tells us to do not as the Hebrews do, who see a stranger naked and beaten and abandoned and pass him by, but as the Samaritan man does, who sees this stranger, naked and beaten and abandoned, and has mercy on him (Luke 10). Racism is a Christian problem because Christians are failing in the world and in the Church to acknowledge that racism is a problem and because Christians are failing in the world and in the Church to stop being the problem.
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Read Pete’s homily on facing rejection for the gospel’s sake.
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My introduction to the Wesley Foundation began during my senior year of high school. A good friend of mine had come to Tech a year before me, and she began attending the Well on a regular basis. She would tell me all the time about how wonderful the Wesley was, and how she felt deeply connected to the people on staff.
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There’s a silence lingering upon the air. Those who once drew Breath now have still chests and empty eyes. Dimness surrounds their form, as though I’m looking at their reflection on a still bayou, muddied and colorless, under the coverage of willows.
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In this passage, Jesus’s disciples trusted him enough to search for a way to reconcile his extreme behavior with what they knew of him. They remembered Isaiah’s prophecy and were satisfied. The Jews, however, put the burden of proof on Jesus, asking “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” Or as Kaiti put it on Tuesday, “What gives you the right?”
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Read Laura’s homily about Jesus’s call on your life.
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I have been at the Wesley Foundation for almost six years. When I first started coming to Louisiana Tech I was someone who was in loneliness wanting a way to get out. Each day I would search for someone to be friends with but I would never have the courage to interact with them. One day after English class a girl, named Ki, invited me to The Wesley’s weekly lunch. And because of her, I was able to meet other people from The Wesley.
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Read Makenzie’s homily on the gospel of Luke
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Oh, how man forgets God and thus himself! For without God what is there, but oblivion. This is what the man in the parable found out when he stored up his grain.
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Love. Serve. Move. These three words define what it means to be a part of the Wesley. They are on shirts of students that are relaxing in the back room. You may find them on wooden pallets that bear photos of missions past, and the loved ones who bore witness to these words in action. As a bit of an older Wesleyian now, I can recall many moments in my short time here that exemplify these words.
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Read about the mission of the leadership team at Wesley Foundation as presented by Laura!
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The Wesley is a place. It’s a place Sam asked me to come for lunch one day, and where Kohl understood my smile.
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Pete discusses how he came to the Wesley Foundation and the ways his life has changed since.
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I am more than a month into the internship at the Welsey Foundation, and it is quite the experience! It is often exhausting, radically illuminating, and truly fulfilling. It is showing me what it means to be a Christian leader. I’ve had a faulty understanding of leadership, but during the past year, and especially these several weeks, my understanding is being corrected. I am growing into someone who is leaving behind personal pretenses and learning what is most important to discipling God’s people.
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Gracie learns the beauty of liturgical tradition upon her arrival at the Wesley Foundation.
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Read Camellia’s life changing experience in Mexico.
“To say that Mexico changed my life would not be an exaggeration. It being my first mission trip, I didn’t fully know what to expect. However, from the stories I’d heard from others, I anticipated to work, learn to function within a group, share the Gospel, and in Mexico specifically, force myself into awkward encounters of struggling to communicate in a language that I was far from fluent in…”
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