Theology comes mainly from one’s understanding of God, scripture, tradition and experience. Theology is embedded in many Christian songs and hymns. This is especially true of the Wesleyan hymns. Most of Charles Wesley’s hymns are Bible-centered. Wesleyan hymns teach the availability of God’s grace and redemption to all.
             In the Global South, songs capture the theology of God’s presence in the midst of communities of faith and struggle, poverty and hunger, and in the quotidian battles to face the daily challenges of existence. Songs in this context are often experiential testimonies of communal survival against odds. Seen in this perspective, mission “happens” first, and theology occurs later.
             Songs play an important role in God’s whole mission in the world. They are carriers of hope, bearers of mission, channels of justice, and visions of the great home-gathering of all God’s children. Songs chant the ultimate longing, “the great homesickness that we can never shake off”: God and God’s very self.