The focus of this project is creating Small Group Ministry through the lens of John Wesley's understanding of true and intimate Christian community. The major question explored is how Small Group Ministry helps to form and transform Christian community and allows ways for Christ…
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Schools associated with The Wesleyan Church have been charged with aligning curriculum meant to produce candidates for ministerial credentialing with newly articulated competency statements. The literature revealed several stages and steps of exploration and implementation. This…
This study utilizes Wesleyan models of discipleship to design a model of resourcing churches to enable church planting and the creation of ecclesial communities by training identified laity for future leadership roles in a Methodist setting.
The church at large in North America faces shrinking congregation sizes and attendance with estimates that forty-million young people who were raised in Christian homes could walk away from faith by 2050 (The Great Opportunity Study). The underlying problems the church faces are…
Shared leadership is an important emerging leadership praxis. Empirical studies on teams that use shared leadership in businesses, education, and non-profits suggest that they tend to be more effective and produce increased team member satisfaction and commitment. However, littl…
Funeral sermons are opportunities for South Georgia United Methodist pastors to share hope for the grieving through the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is a time to share the Christian hope that death is defeated through the resurrection of Jesus. However, concerns have risen over wh…