Wesley's Quadrilateral (Parody)

A parody to the tune of What Makes You Beautiful by One Direction

Sunday school teachers! Seminarians! Methodist nerds!

Ever get so happy about the Wesleyan Quadrilateral that you just want to sing about it?

You are not alone. That's why this exists.

Also, because one of my junior youth brings up One Direction in nearly every conversation and this seemed like a wise business move.



You're insecure
Don't know the four
Items that make up a religious core
Why get caught up
In abstract stuff?
Simple geometry will be enough

Methodists got a good way to say it
Four little words will do

[Chorus]
Experience makes Scripture more than just a tract
Tradition's what churches launched in the Book of Acts
And Reason's what your brain makes out of all the facts
So now you know
Oh Oh
Wesley's Quadrilateral

Miracles are things for some to see
Parables can make a mess of simplicity
There are so many ways each person can believe
So now you know
Oh Oh
Wesley's Quadrilateral
Oh Oh
Wesley's Quadrilateral

Say, "C-come on.
Knew all along"?
But just in case, I put it in a song

Wesley got cred
Once he was dead
And now this box thing will be stuck in my head

Methodists got a good way to say it
Four little words will do

[Chorus]
Experience makes Scripture more than just a tract
Tradition's what churches launched in the Book of Acts
And Reason's what your brain makes out of all the facts
So now you know
Oh Oh
Wesley's Quadrilateral

Miracles are things for some to see
Parables can make a mess of simplicity
There are so many ways each person can believe
So now you know
Oh Oh
Wesley's Quadrilateral
Oh Oh
Wesley's Quadrilateral

Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na-na-na

[Chorus]
Experience makes Scripture more than just a tract
Tradition's what churches launched in the Book of Acts...

(Spoken Interruption) Actually, some of our traditions can be traced even further.

...And Reason's what your brain makes out of all the facts
So now you know
Oh Oh
Wesley's Quadrilateral

Miracles are things for some to see
Parables can make a mess of simplicity
There are so many ways each person can believe
So now you know
Oh Oh
Wesley's Quadrilateral
Oh Oh
Wesley's Quadrilateral
Oh Oh
Wesley's Quadrilateral