Susanna Wesley—The Mother of Methodism—Teaching Us All the Values of Teaching Our Children About Christ

We usually think of John Wesley when we think of Methodism.  Yet, there is another person behind the scenes.  Susanna Wesley was the mother of John Wesley.  Her influence to Christianity has spanned all the generations that followed her.  To understand Susanna you have to look at her story and see how she was the Foundation of her Family.

Susanna did not go to school yet she was taught to read, be a homemaker and mother.  She married when she was young to a minister.  She had nineteen children.  Ten of those children would live to be adults.  She was a homemaker and a mother.

She didn’t have the best relationship with her husband because she believed differently about who should be King.  Yet, they stayed together until he passed away.  She then moved to live her son John.  Most have heard of her son, John Wesley.

What makes her special isn’t what she did as far as theological terms.  It wasn’t about anything that she wrote that made her special.  It was the way that she taught her children that has affected Christianity.  Susanna taught all of her children from her home.  She taught them how to read and how to do household chores. 

She most importantly taught them how to pray.  She taught them how to read the scriptures.  She taught them to love God.  The most important thing that she did was to teach her children how to love God from home.  She left a legacy that the home should be where children should start learning about God.

She experienced her second experience with Christ after she went to live with her son.  Yet, we have to remember what makes her important is that she was a mother.  She created a fundamental base for her two sons to impact society.  She was a foundation that taught them to stand up for what they believed.  She is the example of what all parents need to do.  All Christians need to take her lead and begin teaching their children about Jesus.  They need to teach their children how to pray to God.  Most importantly they need to lead by example and be the role models that children need to grow up to be Christians.