Author: Kevin M. WatsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781628240580
Category : Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
The Class Meeting
Author: Kevin M. WatsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781628240580
Category : Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
John Wesley's Class Meeting
Author: D. Michael HendersonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780990345923
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
John 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. WatsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781628244991
Category : Church group work
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Pursuing Social Holiness
Author: Kevin M. WatsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190270950
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Kevin 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 WilterdinkPublisher: Upper Room Books
ISBN: 0881777951
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Everyday 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 WatsonPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1579109543
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
In 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.
The Character of a Methodist
Author: John WesleyA Year with John Wesley and Our Methodist Values
Author: Michael J. CoynerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780881775501
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Do 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."
Cities of Zion
Author: Samuel Avery-QuinnPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498576559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Cities of Zion: The Holiness Movement and Methodist Camp Meeting Towns in America follows Methodists and holiness advocates from their urban worlds of mid-century New York City and Philadelphia out into the wilderness where they found green worlds of religious retreat in that most traditional of Methodist theaters: the camp meeting. Samuel Avery-Quinn examines the transformation of American Methodist camp meeting revivalism from the Gilded Age through the twenty-first Century. These transformations are a window into the religious worlds of middle-class Protestants as they struggled with economic and social change, industrialization, moral leisure, theological controversies, and radically changing city life and landscape. This study comprehensively analyzes camp meeting revivalism in America to offer a larger narrative to the historical movement. Avery-Quinn studies how Methodists and holiness advocates sought to sanctify leisure and recreation, struggled to balance a sense of community while mired in American gender role and race relation norms, wrestled with the governance and town planning of their communities, and confronted the shifting economic fortunes and continuing theological controversies of the Progressive Era.
Disciples Making Disciples
Author: Steven W. ManskarPublisher: Upper Room Books
ISBN: 0881777765
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Disciples Making Disciples: Guide for Covenant Discipleship Groups and Class Leaders by Steven W. Manskar is for pastors, Covenant Discipleship group members, and class leaders. It provides information needed to organize the ministry, form groups, write a covenant, lead a meeting, support groups so they help the congregation live out its mission of making disciples for the transformation of the world. The book also describes the office of class leaders and how to introduce this powerful disciple-making office to the congregation.