Pursuing Social Holiness

Author : Kevin M. Watson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190270957

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Pursuing Social Holiness by Kevin M. Watson Pdf

Kevin M. Watson offers the first in-depth examination of an essential early Methodist tradition: the band meeting, a small group of five to seven people who focused on the confession of sin in order to grow in holiness. Watson shows how the band meeting, which figured significantly in John Wesley's theology of discipleship, united Wesley's emphasis on the importance of holiness with his conviction that Christians are most likely to make progress in the Christian life together, rather than in isolation. Demonstrating that neither John Wesley's theology nor popular Methodism can be understood independent of each other, Watson explores how Wesley synthesized important aspects of Anglican piety (an emphasis on a disciplined practice of the means of grace) and Moravian piety (an emphasis on an experience of justification by faith and the witness of the Spirit) in his own version of the band meeting. Pursuing Social Holiness is an essential contribution to understanding the critical role of the band meeting in the development of British Methodism and shifting concepts of community in eighteenth-century British society.

Author : Nathan Crawford,Jonathan Dodtrill,David Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11
Category : Change
ISBN : 1609470877

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Holy Imagination by Nathan Crawford,Jonathan Dodtrill,David Wilson Pdf

This book invites the reader to rethink the various aspects of the doctrine of holiness in a social way, while seeking to draw out the nuances of a Wesleyan understanding of the interaction between the personal and social dynamics of the Christian life within the community of faith. It has a specific constructive intention-to define holiness in light of the Triune God, making holiness a reflection of the community that exists within the Godhead.

Author : R. George Eli
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003470437

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Social Holiness by R. George Eli Pdf

Social Holiness is a concept distinctive to John Wesley's thinking, describing how Christian community nurtures and practices its faith in relation to the social order. The character of Christian identity and the qualities of Christian discipleship become meaningful only as they emerge from and are nurtured within a corporate context. They find their ultimate goal as they permeate the structures of the social order, proving the Christian claim to God given possibilities for transformation through Christ for both individual persons and corporate structures.

Author : Richard T. Pollard
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532636196

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Dan Taylor (1738-1816), Baptist Leader and Pioneering Evangelical by Richard T. Pollard Pdf

Dan Taylor was a leading English eighteenth-century General Baptist minister and founder of the New Connexion of General Baptists—a revival movement. This book provides considerable new light on the theological thinking of this important evangelical figure. The major themes examined are Taylor’s spiritual formation; soteriology; understanding of the atonement; beliefs regarding the means and process of conversion; ecclesiology; approach to baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and worship; and missiology. The nature of Taylor’s evangelicalism—its central characteristics, underlying tendencies, evidence of the shaping influence of certain Enlightenment values, and ways that it was outworked—reflect that which was distinct about evangelicalism as a movement emerging from the eighteenth-century Evangelical Revival. It is thus especially relevant to recent debates regarding the origins of evangelicalism. Taylor’s evangelicalism was particularly marked by its pioneering nature. His propensity for innovation serves as a unifying theme throughout the book, with many of its accompanying patterns of thinking and practical expressions demonstrating that which was distinct about evangelicalism in the eighteenth century.

Author : Jonathan S. Raymond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1600393101

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Social Holiness by Jonathan S. Raymond Pdf

We become the company we keep! This account of "holiness" invites unholy humans into holy community, connecting the individual's experience of holiness with God's own communal and social self. God deepens the experience through the forms of company we keep, tying the experience of holiness to participation in the loving mission of Jesus.

Author : Timothy C. Tennent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 1628241640

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The Call to Holiness by Timothy C. Tennent Pdf

Author : Stacey Weeks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1738741389

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Chasing Holiness by Stacey Weeks Pdf

Author : Kevin M. Watson
Publisher : Discipleship Resources
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0881775568

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A Blueprint for Discipleship by Kevin M. Watson Pdf

Do no harm. Do good. Practice the spiritual disciplines. Watch over one another in love. --John Wesley's General Rules Why is this so hard? Does being a part of the Wesleyan tradition make any difference in living out your faith? Does Methodism offer guidance as we look to the future and seek renewal? Methodist Christians sometimes exhibit the most unchristian attitudes and behavior. People notice. And it's reflecting badly on the church, but we can--individually and collectively--correct the problem. Allow God to enter more deeply into your life until it's hard to tell where you end and God begins. "Most American Christians are struggling to practice their faith," Watson writes. "...Methodists can hold on and try not to let our tradition die, but mere survival is not God's deepest desire for us or the church. Instead, we must choose to live by stubbornly depending on God's Spirit, allowing our lives to give witness to who Christ is." A Blueprint for Discipleship offers a practical approach to Christian discipleship that's distinctly Wesleyan. Watson addresses the overwhelming desire of many Methodist Christians who want a more meaningful relationship with God but aren't sure how to start. Reawaken to the power and vitality of your spiritual heritage. Repent of apathy and spiritual complacency to reclaim, in the words of Wesley, "the form and power of godliness."

Author : Jerry Bridges
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Holiness
ISBN : 9781631466397

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The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges Pdf

This new edition replaces both The Pursuit of Holiness (ISBN 9781576839324) and the study guide (ISBN 9781576839881) by combining both resources into one volume "Be holy, for I am holy," commands God. But holiness is something that is often missed in the Christian's daily life. According to Navigator author Jerry Bridges, that's because we're not exactly sure what our part in holiness is. In The Pursuit of Holiness, he helps us see clearly just what we should rely on God to do--and what we should take responsibility for ourselves. As you deepen your relationship with God, learn more about His character, and understand the Holy Spirit's role in holiness, your spiritual growth will mature. The included study guide contains 12 lessons.

Author : Kevin M. Watson,Scott Thomas Kisker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Church group work
ISBN : 1628244992

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The Band Meeting by Kevin M. Watson,Scott Thomas Kisker Pdf

Author : Kevin M. Watson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190844530

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Old or New School Methodism? by Kevin M. Watson Pdf

On September 7, 1881, Matthew Simpson, Bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, in a London sermon asserted that, "As to the divisions in the Methodist family, there is little to mar the family likeness." Nearly a quarter-century earlier, Benjamin Titus (B.T.) Roberts, a minister in the same branch of Methodism as Simpson, had published an article titled in the Northern Independent in which he argued that Methodism had split into an "Old School" and "New School." He warned that if the new school were to "generally prevail," then "the glory will depart from Methodism." As a result, Roberts was charged with "unchristian and immoral conduct" and expelled from the Genesee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC). Old or New School Methodism? examines how less than three decades later Matthew Simpson could claim that the basic beliefs and practices that Roberts had seen as threatened were in fact a source of persisting unity across all branches of Methodism. Kevin M. Watson argues that B. T. Roberts's expulsion from the MEC and the subsequent formation of the Free Methodist Church represent a crucial moment of transition in American Methodism. This book challenges understandings of American Methodism that emphasize its breadth and openness to a variety of theological commitments and underemphasize the particular theological commitments that have made it distinctive and have been the cause of divisions over the past century and a half. Old or New School Methodism? fills a major gap in the study of American Methodism from the 1850s to 1950s through a detailed study of two of the key figures of the period and their influence on the denomination.

Author : Adam Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1426778848

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Revival by Adam Hamilton Pdf

Experience a Modern-Day Revival.

Author : Andrew Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Devotional literature
ISBN : OXFORD:590706614

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Humility by Andrew Murray Pdf

Author : Jackie Hill Perry
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781535975704

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Holier Than Thou by Jackie Hill Perry Pdf

If God is holy, then He can’t sin. If God can’t sin, then He can’t sin against you. If He can’t sin against you, shouldn’t that make Him the most trustworthy being there is? Bestselling author Jackie Hill Perry, in her much anticipated follow-up to Gay Girl, Good God, helps us find the reason we don’t trust God— we misunderstand His holiness. In Holier Than Thou, Jackie walks us through Scripture, shaking the dust off of “holy” as we’ve come to know it and revealing it for what it really is: good news. In these pages, we will see that God is not like us. He is different. He is holy. And that’s exactly what makes Him trustworthy. As it turns out, God being “holier than thou” is actually the best news in the world, and it’s the key to trusting Him.

Author : John Wesley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Church history
ISBN : HARVARD:HNH7R3

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Sermons on Several Occasions by John Wesley Pdf