A Wesleyan Theology of the Eucharist: The Presence of God for Christian Life and Ministry by Jason E. Vickers, general editor. This book brings together noted Wesleyans who seek to recover the importance of Holy Communion. Leading Wesleyan scholars reflect on the Eucharist in connection with each of the major areas of Christian theology and on the relationship between the Eucharist and aspects of Christian life and ministry.
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9780938162674
This book is available through your annual conference office.
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9781945935145
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Refresh, renew, rekindle passion for ministry by helping others revisit their stories.
Reinvigorate your ministry as you help others. Author Dr. Karen Scheib says that to experience a new sense of freedom in caring for others, we must first help them attend to their story and connect their story with others and God. But to do so effectively, we must be willing to revision our own story, so that we can exemplify Christian happiness and offer others a path toward fulfillment.
Incorporate spiritual disciplines into collegiate ministry settings.
Inspired by the religious life of St. Benedict and richly illustrated with concrete examples, MacDonald adapts eight spiritual disciplines for emerging young adults. This book is a practical guide for those who work with emerging adults—college and university chaplains, campus ministers, student leaders, pastors, parachurch professionals, and spiritual directors.
Spiritual practices include:
Schism and heresy are not doctrinal divisions but failures to love.
Can women successfully pastor churches of 1,000 or more? How can they possibly take care of their large, diverse flocks - and themselves?
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9781945935428
A 360-degree approach to local church finances for congregations of all sizes
Includes: guidelines, tools, worksheets, and strategiesfor pastors, treasurers, trustees, finance and stewardship chairs and committees. Includes reproducible pages with worksheets and sample policies. Bonnie Ives Mardenis a leadership consultant and financial
Common worship? Yes, because a broken church cannot repair a broken world. Common worship is evidence of our engagement with Christ’s prayer “that we may be one.” Anderson says, “To say that Christian liturgy is a place and set of practices through which we come to inhabit the habit of Christ means that how and what we worship says something about the character of the church’s life in the world.”
The year 2006 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the historic decision in 1956 to accord full clergy rights to women clergy in The Methodist Church. Courageous Past-Bold Future chronicles this historic journey of passion, struggle, courage, and hope. In a moving early chapter, Thompson recounts the stories of the 27 women from 19 annual conferences who were received on probation at the 1956 General Conference, as well as three women elders from The Methodist Protestant Church still serving that year.
