The Class Meeting
Author: Kevin M. Watson
Publisher:
Published: 2013-11-15
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9781628240580
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John Wesley's Class Meeting
Author: D. Michael Henderson
Publisher:
Published: 2016-02-09
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780990345923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Wesley was an eighteenth-century Anglican priest and Oxford tutor. He and George Whitefield were the primary leaders of the Evangelical Awakening which had a profound effect on the spiritual, social, and political life of both England and colonial America. Wesley gathered converts into a network of small groups for personal accountability, behavioral change, leadership training, and the transformation of their communities. Central to his system was the "class meeting," which proved to be one of the most effective tools for making disciples ever developed. This study examines the historical development, the theological foundation, and the social outcomes of John Wesley's class meeting.
The Band Meeting
Author: Kevin M. Watson
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781628244991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPursuing Social Holiness
Author: Kevin M. Watson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0190270950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKevin M. Watson offers the first in-depth examination of the early Methodist band meeting: a small group of five to seven people focusing on the confession of sin in order to grow in holiness.
Everyday Disciples
Author: Chris Wilterdink
Publisher: Upper Room Books
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 0881777951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEveryday Disciples: Covenant Discipleship with Youth by Chris Wilterdink resources pastors, youth leaders, and youth groups with information and planning materials related to Covenant Discipleship and accountability practices. Covenant Discipleship encourages youth to connect with Christ and one another through mutual accountability. It also encourages a networked support structure for living in the world as Christ followers.
Class Leaders
Author: David Lowes Watson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2002-04-30
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1579109543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1988, The General Conference of the United Methodist Church restored class leaders and class meetings to the Book of Discipline after an absence of fifty years. In this volume, David Lowes Watson explains what the recovery of this tradition can mean for congregations, and offers some guidelines for the revitalized office of class leader. Adapting the later Methodist class meeting as a pastoral subdivision of the congregation, Watson shows how class leaders, under the supervision of the pastor, can nurture the discipline of other church members in light of a ÒGeneral Rule of DisciplineÓ derived from the early Methodist societies: ÒTo witness to Jesus Christ in the world, and to follow his teachings through acts of compassion, justice, worship, and devotion, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.Ó This volume is the second in a trilogy : Covenant Discipleship, Class Leaders, and Forming Christian Disciples.
United Methodist Doctrine
Author: Scott J. Jones
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 068703485X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout this book, Scott J. Jones insists that for United Methodists the ultimate goal of doctrine is holiness. Importantly, he clarifies the nature and the specific claims of "official" United Methodist doctrine in a way that moves beyond the current tendency to assume the only alternatives are a rigid dogmatism or an unfettered theological pluralism. In classic Wesleyan form, Jones' driving concern is with recovering the vital role of forming believers in the "mind of Christ, " so that they might live more faithfully in their many settings in our world.
A Year with John Wesley and Our Methodist Values
Author: Michael J. Coyner
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780881775501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo we act, live, and breathe our faith? What do United Methodists believe? Do people notice a difference between the way United Methodists practice faith in the church and in the world? A Year with John Wesley and Our Methodist Values is an engaging and provocative study of the practices of discipleship that are of "the Methodist way." Brief scholarly reflections on Wesleyan themes are followed by short essays making recurring Wesley tenets timely and relevant to today's world. Covering one aspect of distinctly Wesleyan theology a month, the collection of essays contained in this book provide an in-depth yet easily approachable 12-month survey of the Methodist tradition for clergy and laity alike. "A Year with John Wesley reveals and makes plain the essence of John Wesley's life and witness," writes one reviewer. "A Methodist way of living becomes accessible through these great themes expressed in contemporary language and situations. Those who read and reflect upon these pages will gain understanding of United Methodist theology, polity, and practice, but even more significantly, they will learn what it means to walk with Christ in our contemporary world."
Methodism
Author: David Hempton
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0300106149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHempton explores the rise of Methodism from its unpromising origins as a religious society within the Church of England in the 1730s to a major international religious movement by the 1880s.
John Wesley
Author: John Wesley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780195028102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major figure in eighteenth-century Christianity, John Wesley sought to combine the essential elements of the Catholic and Evangelical traditions and to restore to the laity a vital role in church life. He began one of the most dynamic movements in the history of modern Protestantism, a movement which eventually produced the Methodist churches. This volume offers a representative selection of theological writings by Wesley and includes historically oriented introductions and footnotes which indicate Wesley's Anglican, patristic, and biblical sources.
