Is the Class Meeting Judgmental and Exclusive?

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Kevin Watson

This is the fifth post in a series on the contemporary relevance and practical application of the Methodist class meeting. In the first post, I gave a brief history of the origin and development of the class meeting in early Methodism. In the second post I discussed the potential contributions I believe the class meeting [...]

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Top Ten Ways to Guarantee that Your Class Meeting will Fail

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Kevin Watson

This is the fourth post in a series on the contemporary relevance and practical application of the Methodist class meeting. In the first post, I gave a brief history of the origin and development of the class meeting in early Methodism. In the second post I discussed the potential contributions I believe the class meeting [...]

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The Methodist Class Meeting for the 21st Century: The Foundation

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Kevin Watson

I want to start this series of posts on the contemporary relevance of the Methodist class meeting by covering the basics of the early Methodist class meeting. For those of you who already know about the early Methodist class meeting, please bear with me. After this post, the remainder of the conversation will be focused [...]

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The Methodist Class Meeting for the 21st Century

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Kevin Watson

Recently, I have had several opportunities to speak at churches about Wesleyan small groups. I have been encouraged by the desire that many pastors and laity have had to start something like a class meeting. On several occasions I have had further conversations with people about what it might look like for them to actually [...]

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