Banding Together Again: Rediscovering Relational Discipleship
Fully known. Fully loved. This is what is already ours in Christ, and what we can experience in transformative small groups called band meetings.
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.
The Protestant Reformation launched early in the 16th century, so how might an 18th century church leader named John Wesley fit into this picture? Watch this Seven Minute Seminary by Dr. Larry Wood to find out.
When we serve the poor, a mutual exchange of blessings is incurred, and in the process, both parties meet with Jesus.
Read these three powerful quotes on leadership that help illuminate the Wesleyan contribution to this important calling.
The Bible reveals a whole and healing gospel. Good News! Today however, a third of the gospel is missing from much evangelical preaching, teaching, and living. Even among Wesleyans. The Bible is the story of
Sin is the individual acts we commit, but it’s also the disease. The grace of God is strong enough to handle both of these.
Wesley preached his last Oxford sermon, “Scriptural Christianity,” on August 24, 1744. It was an indictment that opened up a whole new world for him.
Within a few months of beginning field preaching in 1739, Wesley had set up the basic structure that was to mark Methodism for more than a century: Societies, Bands, and Class Meetings.
From the beginning, the Wesleyan Revival was a movement largely for and among the poor, those whom “gentlemen” and “ladies” looked on simply as part of the machinery of the new industrial system.
John Wesley was a master of holding things in tension. Howard Snyder shares three important tensions Wesley got right.
Wesley’s role in bringing spiritual renewal to a rapidly industrializing society and his understanding and practice of Christian discipleship suggest his continuing worldwide relevance.