New Testament leaders would challenge us to lower the privacy screens we place between us and our sisters and brothers in Christ, both so that we can watch over them and so they can watch over us.
Most New Testament voices are actively involved in encouraging their audiences to take up or to persevere in allegiance to Jesus and the Spirit-led life.
Some churches focus on evangelism at the expense of discipleship by seeking to win converts instead of making disciples.
We need people in our lives to journey with us in order that we may “watch over one another in love” between our Sundays and other times of worship.
John Wesley often said that he instituted bands among the people called Methodist in order to create a setting where James 5:16 could be practiced and lived out.
Lent is the 40-day period leading up to Easter. Here is a free sermon outline for the first Sunday of Lent.
Could it be that the problem facing the church is much larger and more significant than has typically been realized? Maybe the simplest way to put it is that we are all addicts.
The Band Meeting by Kevin Watson and Scott Kisker is a small book, just 172 pages (Seedbed Publishing). I consider it the most significant book of 2017. The book’s subtitle: Rediscovering Relational Discipleship in Transformational
The band meeting was a form of discipleship that helped small groups of men and women practice intense vulnerability and confession of sin together. Watch this Seven Minute Seminary video by Dr. Scott Kisker as he traces the history of this powerful spiritual discipline.
W. B. Fitzgerald once summarized British Methodists’ distinctive Wesleyan aspects of salvation with the “four alls.” Read more from Scott Kisker as he explains how these relate to biblical salvation.
Fully known. Fully loved. This is what is already ours in Christ, and what we can experience in transformative small groups called band meetings.
What is a band meeting and what is its purpose? In this video, Scott Kisker and Kevin Watson share the why behind their recent book, The Band Meeting: Rediscovering Relationship Discipleship in Transformational Community.
