John Wesley on the Sacraments
Author: Ole E. Borgen
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780310751915
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ole E. Borgen
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780310751915
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ole E. Borgen
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9783857061721
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: S T Kimbrough
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2021-08-23
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 1666705659
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume brings together the theological interpretation of the sacraments of baptism and Holy Communion as expressed in the writings and hymns of John and Charles Wesley. •Section 1 addresses the Anglican-Methodist sacrament of baptism as interpreted by John Wesley with excerpts from his Treatise on Baptism. •Section 2 contains commentaries on six of Charles Wesley’s hymns on baptism. The commentaries seek to elucidate not only the theological emphases of the texts but also their meaning for the church today. •Section 3 moves to the sacrament of Holy Communion and includes excerpts from John Wesley’s sermon “On the Duty of Constant Communion.” Charles Wesley expresses similar views in his treatise on Holy Communion, “And upon the first Day of the Week,” and in his twenty-two stanza poem “Happy the Saints of Former Days.” •Section 4 includes the commentaries on sixteen Wesley hymns for Holy Communion. •Section 5 includes new musical settings for all of the twenty-two Wesley hymns on baptism and Holy Communion included here by twenty contemporary composers from North and South America, Asia, and Europe. In a variety of musical styles they seek to capture the various theological emphases and nuances of the texts.
Author: Winfield Bevins
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2019-09-10
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0310093252
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Marks of a Movement calls us back to the disciple-making mandate of the church through the timeless wisdom of John Wesley and the Methodist movement. With a love for history and a passion for today’s church, Winfield helps us reimagine church multiplication in a way that focuses on making and multiplying disciples for the twenty-first century. Winfield Bevins reminds us of the vital multiplication lessons from the Wesleyan movement, one of the greatest missional movements the world has ever known. He highlights the necessity of discipleship as the starting point and the abiding strategic practice that is key to all lasting missional impact in and through movements. The Methodist movement is an example of the power of multiplying movements that utilize the strategy of discipleship. Within a generation, one in thirty people who were living in Britain had become Methodists, and the movement soon became a worldwide phenomenon. We in the Western Church need a movement of historic proportions once again. What would such a multiplication movement look like for us today? We must look to the past to gain wisdom for the future. And as we look at the pages of church history, there is no better example of a multiplication movement in the West than the Methodist movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Marks of a Movement highlights the lessons and key insights that enable us to learn from the past and reapply this timeless, biblical wisdom for today.
Author: Jason E. Vickers
Publisher: United Methodist General Board of Higher Education
Published: 2016-10-26
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780938162520
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recover the Eucharist for church and ministry.
Author: Gordon T. Smith
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2017-03-21
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 0830891625
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Evangelical. Sacramental. Pentecostal. Christian communities tend to identify with one of these labels over the other two. Evangelical churches emphasize the importance of Scripture and preaching. Sacramental churches emphasize the importance of the eucharistic table. And pentecostal churches emphasize the immediate presence and power of the Holy Spirit. But must we choose between them? Could the church be all three? Drawing on his reading of the New Testament, the witness of Christian history, and years of experience in Christian ministry and leadership, Gordon T. Smith argues that the church not only can be all three, but in fact must be all three in order to truly be the church. As the church navigates the unique global challenges of pluralism, secularism, and fundamentalism, the need for an integrated vision of the community as evangelical, sacramental, and pentecostal becomes ever more pressing. If Jesus and the apostles saw no tension between these characteristics, why should we?