When times become difficult, we have a natural tendency to turn inward. We focus on ourselves, our families, our churches, and the communities closest to us. Our circle of concern begins to shrink.
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Spent gunpowder hung in the air as Soldiers packed equipment after a long day on the range. Machine guns echoed in the distance, radios chirped, and the rumble of military vehicles moved in and out of the training area. "Chap, do you have a minute?"
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The modern church cannot hold. Not attendance or budgets or programs but people. In many congregations there is a growing sense of ecclesial thinness: communities that gather but do not form; worship that inspires but does not sustain; institutions that speak of belonging but often cannot bear the weight of people’s stories, wounds, callings and questions.
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The church’s crisis of formation is not simply a crisis of discipleship programs. It is a crisis of imagination—a failure to see holiness as the Spirit‑empowered way of being human in the world God loves. Wesleyan theology has always insisted that sanctification is not an escape from creation but the healing of creaturely life.
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In Global Methodist circles, we are still rejoicing over the glory and grace that bathed our recent General Conference (GC) in Johannesburg. Even for those of us watching from afar, the beauty of holiness was palpable.
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Across the Christian landscape, people are naming the same ache: life feels too fast, too loud, too fragmented. Churches are busy but thin. Leaders are exhausted. Communities feel unmoored.
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