by WadeArnold | Jun 15, 2018 | Discipleship
[Note: This is the fourth and final installment of a series on discipleship. Click here for part one, here for part two, and here for part three.] Do you want to grow in Christ? Do you want to “feel the power of the resurrection” as Paul said? Do you want to be...
by WadeArnold | Jun 8, 2018 | Discipleship
Note: This is part three in a series of articles on small group discipleship. You can read the first article on John Wesley’s Class Meetings here, and Band Meetings here. At Ocoee Oaks, we have a two-pronged mission: love God and love people (Matthew...
by WadeArnold | Jun 1, 2018 | Discipleship
Discipleship: The Minimum Social Requirement In my last blog post I discussed Kevin Watson’s book The Class Meeting. You can find that post here. The Class Meeting was only one type of group that Wesley established that empowered the early Methodist movement. The...
by WadeArnold | May 25, 2018 | Discipleship
The Urgency In his book, The Class Meeting, Kevin M. Watson argues that if we are going to recover the vitality of the Wesleyan movement, we must return to our Wesleyan roots. He observes that with the rise of the Sunday School movement and the rejection of the early...
by WadeArnold | Apr 20, 2018 | Book Review, Discipleship
[This is part 2 of a 2 part review of The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating Apostolic Movements Alan Hirsch’s The Forgotten Ways. To read part 1 click here] APEST Culture APEST Culture is one of the elements of Apostolic Genius. APEST Culture is derived from...
by WadeArnold | Apr 18, 2018 | Book Review, Discipleship
[Note: This is part one of a two part book review.] How Did The Church Grow So Big So Fast? How did the followers of Jesus grow from a movement of maybe 25,000 in AD 100 to as many as 20 million in the span of 200 years? How did this outlawed religion become...
