My take on suffering

So kind of going off of what we talked about in class Tuesday, I’m going to write about the suffering of others. In part II.8., what I think Wesley is saying is that part of the reason for people suffering is because we aren’t doing anything about it. I think a lot of Christians are comfortable with sitting in church, singing, tithing, praying and that’s the end of it. Maybe they’ll even give to the Annie Armstrong Christmas offering or pay for someone to go but they won’t go themselves. It doesn’t matter whose fault it is for people’s suffering, but what the church (as in the global body of believers) does about it. The Disciples asked Jesus whose sin it was that had caused a man to be cripple and He straight up told them that it didn’t matter, but what does matter is what He said the two most important commandments are, love God, love others. Wesley does say, “let us pursue this thought till we are deeply sensible of our sins, as one great cause of their sufferings.” and I do believe that our sins corrupted the world, including the disasters as well as other suffering, like hunger or slavery. It’s because the world sins that the world suffers.