Hence, the best approach to engaging Christian ethics in politics is to engage in worthy issues, remember the reason for involvement is to promote the good of the community and not the goals of an individual and to modulate one's delivery of ideas so as to not chase of the audience.
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Methodism and Charity
Methodist founders, including John Wesley, made charity and service to the poor one of the anchor tenets of their sect of Christianity. The first generations of Methodists were adamantly anti-slavery and appalled at the condition and treatment of the poor. They came to view personal wealth, not as a sin, but as a false virtue being promoted by many Christians.
According to the early Methodists, preaching the gospel to the poor represented a return to the very roots and essence of Christianity. One of the virtues of Christ that set him apart from other men was his devotion to the welfare of the poor. In America in the 19th century many Christians had forgotten that all were on equal footing and of equal value regardless of how they were situated, this was a lesson learned directly from Christ (Dayton 114).
The essence of holiness, according to Wesley was to be cleansed of sin and to renew one's human nature to pursue and ideal of virtue and spiritual perfection. Virtue for Wesley was the necessary well-spring to God's grace and salvation (Meeks 56). Providing for the poor and by bringing the gospel to the poor, were the only natural consequence to the purity of intentions, where ones actions were motivated by the love of God and not other, more selfish motives. Acts of kindness to the poor epitomized the life of Christ and one's devotion to Christ's principles....
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