Episode 130: Stories from the Church Family Tree, Part 1: Wesley, Coke, Asbury

In a new series, pastors Erica and Steve (holding the fort until their third voice around the table, Sarah, can rejoin them) start telling some family stories from different branches of the Christian family tree.  If you've been to a family reunion before, you know what it's like to see some familiar faces, some folks you don't really know, and maybe even some total strangers, and then you get to discover how you are all connected to each other, and how each of you lives out your idenity in the family in different ways.  Today, Erica shares some "family stories" from figures in her branch of the Christian family tree as an American United Methodist.  As she tells stories about the Wesley brothers and family, and several important American leaders in what became known as Methodism, we get into the ongoing challenge of how to live out our faith daily when it is easy to just compartmentalize our Christianity to an hour or so on Sunday mornings.  This series is a chance to dabble in some church history, to explore different traditions within the Christian faith, and to break out the old church family photo album and learn about some older siblings in the faith!