The Class Meeting
Author : Kevin M. Watson
Publisher :
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Methodists
ISBN : 9781628240580
Author : Kevin M. Watson
Publisher :
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Methodists
ISBN : 9781628240580
Author : David Lowes Watson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 2002-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1725202360
Author : D. Michael Henderson
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 2016-02-09
Category :
ISBN : 9780990345923
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.
Author : Kevin M. Watson
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Church group work
ISBN : 9781628244991
Author : Kevin M. Watson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0190270950
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.
Author : Chris Wilterdink
Publisher : Upper Room Books
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0881777951
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.
Author : David Lowes Watson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 34,36 MB
Release : 2002-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1579109543
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.
Author : John Wesley
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 1749
Category : Methodism
ISBN :
Author : David Lowes Watson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,28 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Methodist Church
ISBN :
Author : Dallas Willard
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 2006-06-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0060882433
The last command Jesus gave the church before he ascended to heaven was the Great Commission, the call for Christians to "make disciples of all the nations." But Christians have responded by making "Christians," not "disciples." This, according to brilliant scholar and renowned Christian thinker Dallas Willard, has been the church's Great Omission. "The word disciple occurs 269 times in the New Testament," writes Willard. "Christian is found three times and was first introduced to refer precisely to disciples of Jesus. . . . The New Testament is a book about disciples, by disciples, and for disciples of Jesus Christ. But the point is not merely verbal. What is more important is that the kind of life we see in the earliest church is that of a special type of person. All of the assurances and benefits offered to humankind in the gospel evidently presuppose such a life and do not make realistic sense apart from it. The disciple of Jesus is not the deluxe or heavy-duty model of the Christian -- especially padded, textured, streamlined, and empowered for the fast lane on the straight and narrow way. He or she stands on the pages of the New Testament as the first level of basic transportation in the Kingdom of God." Willard boldly challenges the thought that we can be Christians without being disciples, or call ourselves Christians without applying this understanding of life in the Kingdom of God to every aspect of life on earth. He calls on believers to restore what should be the heart of Christianity -- being active disciples of Jesus Christ. Willard shows us that in the school of life, we are apprentices of the Teacher whose brilliance encourages us to rise above traditional church understanding and embrace the true meaning of discipleship -- an active, concrete, 24/7 life with Jesus.