While our allegiance to God takes precedence over our allegiance to any state, we acknowledge the vital function of government as a principal vehicle for the ordering of society. Because we know ourselves to be responsible to God for social and political life, we declare the following relative to governments: Social Principles 2004 Book of Discipline ¶164
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Methodism's founder, John Wesley, on social action:
"The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social, no holiness but social holiness.
"You cannot be holy except as you are engaged in making the world a better place. You do not become holy by keeping yourself pure and clean from the world but by plunging into ministry on behalf of the world's hurting ones."
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