In the final video of our interview with Ed Stetzer, he discusses why Francis Asbury served as a role model for church planting. Stetzer suggests that part of it had to with the unique combination of missional impulse with deep spirituality. This was energized in part by a commitment to the class meeting.
“As the more holy we are upon earth the more happy we must be,” writes John Wesley in “God’s Love to Fallen Man.” Keep this as a fresh reminder on your desktop or smart phone wallpaper. It also doubles as an August calendar, which we release monthly.
We are pleased to team up with Roger E. Olson to offer you this free ebook: Arminianism FAQ: Everything You Always Wanted to Know. Roger is a leading voice on the issues surrounding the biblical understanding of salvation and has spent the last few years of his life bringing clarity to this discussion.
Some point to Romans 7 as the proof-text for the saint-sinner paradox, suggesting that if even the apostle Paul struggled with his unrelenting flesh, Christians must face defeat in certain areas of their Christian life. On the contrary, Ben Witherington suggests that ancient rhetoric illuminates the passage in a way that eliminates Paul as the subject of this passage and paints a more optimistic picture of God’s sanctifying grace.
“Synthesis” and “Radical” aren’t two words you’d expect to go together. Synthesis often means bland, middle-of-the road. Radical often means far out, extreme, fringe, crazy. But Howard Snyder argues that John Wesley exemplified both in a way that is unprecedented in the history of the Christian Church.
The Wesleyan movement is rich with a history of church planting. In Part II of our video interview with Ed Stetzer, he suggests 3 lessons to remember from our history if the Wesleyan-Methodist movement is to recapture its vision for planting churches in the 21st century.
It is well known that early Methodism was especially concerned for the poor of society. The Methodist revival included field preaching to coalminers and the establishment of schools, employment opportunities, and special banks for the poor. Andrew Dragos suggests 4 reasons why Wesleyan spirituality was oriented toward the under-classes of society.
Wesleyans and Methodists were some of the very early successful church planters in America centuries ago. In this video interview, Ed Stetzer shares why the heritage of church planting is essential to reclaim, and why Wesleyans are specially positioned to do so in America.
In part 3 of our video with Howard Snyder, he answers questions relating to John Wesley’s practice of curating content for Christians to read, and helpfully suggests several of his sermons worth revisiting today.
With a nudge from our accented British brethren—Wright, Stott, Lewis, and Wesley—America may be waking up to a new creation song. That’s a good thing, because the modern church has too often embraced consumption over stewardship, says John A. Murdock.
Why is the person and ministry of John Wesley still relevant today, and what exactly did he mean by “Christian Perfection?” In Part II of this video series, Howard Snyder offers insight based on his classic book The Radical Wesley.
Why is the person and ministry of John Wesley still relevant today, and what exactly did he mean by “Christian Perfection?” In this short video, Howard Snyder offers insight based on his classic book The Radical Wesley.
