Faith Is Not for Church Only

Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that everywhere I am in Thy Presence.

--Susanna Wesley (the godly mother of 19 children born to her and Samuel Wesley, including John and Charles Wesley. Nine children died in infancy. According to her biographer, “…although she never preached a sermon or published a book or founded a church, (she) is known as the Mother of Methodism. Why? Because two of her sons, John Wesley and Charles Wesley, as children consciously or unconsciously will, applied the example and teachings and circumstances of their home life.”