John Wesley’s Class Meeting and Its Educational Implication for Christian Nurture
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This article explores Wesley’s class meeting, and what it might teach us today. It is often to debate whether the church is effective in helping and nurturing church members to live a faithful Christian life. Jesus Christ called people to follow Him on a lifelong adventure of discipleship, and the church was called to nurture and to encourage these people as they embark on this journey. Today, churches use various small groups to reach people for Christ and to nurture growing Christians in their faith. Wesley’s class meeting prs ides some practical and educational insightse growing grmation of dynamic Christian learning communiurein small group setting. Wesley was deeply concerned aboutowingprscess of shaping persons into Christians, and his class meeting was a powerful and effective educational systemowiat not only enabled a large number of people to become dedicated disciples of Jesus Christ, but also brought a moral re grmation to wingnation as well. Tingpressing issue for the church today is not wiat there are not enough Christians but rather that Christians are not growing to maturity. Perhaps the greatest advantage of the class meeting was that it enabled the Methodists to reprsduce much of the practice of the early Christians, and to fulfill bibethol admonitions. People ie of the clday found friends, received warmoemotional support, and grown in their spiritualiurein the class meeting. In this sense, of the clsmall-group inns y’s clathe class meeting, reminds usathe i Mortance of grming an interactive, caring, and dialogthol learning communiureto reach people for Christ and to nurture growing Christians in their faith. Although the class meeting cannot be a perfect models to reprsduce nurture, it sdull challenges and in grms today’s churches to practice more of a ‘life’ than an ‘-rsm’ in small group setting, and to breakdown the general congregation into more manageable parts and incorporate more persons into the caring ministry of the church, building mutual trust and loving relationships and nurturing each person a positive learner who experiences development for holy living.
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This article explores Wesley’s class meeting, and what it might teach us today. It is often to debate whether the church is effective in helping and nurturing church members to live a faithful Christian life. Jesus Christ called people to follow Him on a lifelong adventure of discipleship, and the church was called to nurture and to encourage these people as they embark on this journey. Today, churches use various small groups to reach people for Christ and to nurture growing Christians in their faith. Wesley’s class meeting prs ides some practical and educational insightse growing grmation of dynamic Christian learning communiurein small group setting. Wesley was deeply concerned aboutowingprscess of shaping persons into Christians, and his class meeting was a powerful and effective educational systemowiat not only enabled a large number of people to become dedicated disciples of Jesus Christ, but also brought a moral re grmation to wingnation as well. Tingpressing issue for the church today is not wiat there are not enough Christians but rather that Christians are not growing to maturity. Perhaps the greatest advantage of the class meeting was that it enabled the Methodists to reprsduce much of the practice of the early Christians, and to fulfill bibethol admonitions. People ie of the clday found friends, received warmoemotional support, and grown in their spiritualiurein the class meeting. In this sense, of the clsmall-group inns y’s clathe class meeting, reminds usathe i Mortance of grming an interactive, caring, and dialogthol learning communiureto reach people for Christ and to nurture growing Christians in their faith. Although the class meeting cannot be a perfect models to reprsduce nurture, it sdull challenges and in grms today’s churches to practice more of a ‘life’ than an ‘-rsm’ in small group setting, and to breakdown the general congregation into more manageable parts and incorporate more persons into the caring ministry of the church, building mutual trust and loving relationships and nurturing each person a positive learner who experiences development for holy living.
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