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    The Class Meeting: Reclaiming a Forgotten (and Essential) Small Group Experience
    The Class Meeting: Reclaiming a Forgotten (and Essential) Small Group Experience
    The Class Meeting: Reclaiming a Forgotten (and Essential) Small Group Experience
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    The Class Meeting: Reclaiming a Forgotten (and Essential) Small Group Experience

    By Kevin Watson

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    Dr. Kevin Watson has written a fresh new guide to the theory and practice of the Wesley class meeting, an essential element of truly Wesleyan spirituality. This book is for clergy and congregations who are looking for ways to develop deeper discipleship. The class meeting is made workable without losing its essential dynmic as a gospel-based accountable community. Watson has resurrected the class meeting and given it new meaning, showing its relevance for the church today and how it may be a perfect means for church renewal.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAsbury Seedbed Publishing
    Release dateNov 1, 2013
    ISBN9781628240603
    The Class Meeting: Reclaiming a Forgotten (and Essential) Small Group Experience

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    • 5/5
      This book is exceptional, as it portrays a whole new – yet so old – conception of small groups that are perfect for this post-modernism era. Instead of having informational, curriculum based small groups, it can be as simple as having an hour long conversation focused around one question: "How is your life with God?" Phenomenal read.
    • 3/5
      I was immediately sold on the idea that this book is championing, a weekly small group meeting where people discuss where they are at spiritually for a few minutes each. Sharing personal spiritual experiences, group prayer, and community support have always been essential to my religious life. Unfortunately, the author's delivery is slow, repetitive, and overly concerned with trying to convince an audience who wouldn't even pick up the book if they weren't inclined to agree with him.

      Skip the book and just try the practice. Maybe reading the book first prevents some hiccups and small awkwardness in some groups, but spending the time it would take to read this book actually doing the meetings would be even more helpful.

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