This is a course designed to help you learn about grace while exploring the practices that help you nurture and watch over one another in love. Participating in the means of grace (works of mercy and works of piety), you are better able to help others understand the power of grace so that you grow in love of God and neighbor, modeling grace and mentoring as you pass this knowledge on to others.
In this course you will take a closer look at Jesus’s life of prayer, giving you insights that will help you model a meaningful prayer life to others. Learners will examine their own prayer lives and discover tools to help in the process of entering personal prayer. Methods such as fasting, listening, using Scripture and hymns, journaling, and intercession prayer will help you grow in practical ways both as a disciple and as an effective prayer mentor.
“John and Charles Wesley and the early Methodists understood the importance of Christian community, lay leadership in ministry, small groups, and mutual accountability, and supporting the work of Christian formation.” Through devotions, daily videos, lectures, and discussions, you will deepen your understanding of living in the household of God, as you explore accountability, relationships, and grace.
As a Christian servant and church leader, you are called to practice and model the disciplines of daily prayer and Bible study as you grow in discerning God’s presence in your life. This course will help you increase in patience and devotion leading to witness and service.
This class challenges you to become stewards-in-action in all God has entrusted to us. We will go beyond thinking in terms of ‘dollars contributed’ to see stewardship as becoming living examples of the gospel. If we take stewardship seriously – and joyfully – it will change our thinking, acting and imagining. And it will change our vision of ministry, working from the inside out.
How do Christians think and act faithfully in a complex and often ambiguous world? What models from Scripture and Church history might help us to live “lives worthy of the Gospel” in the 21st century? This eloquent, challenging and inspiring six-week introduction to Christian ethics avoids pat answers and simplistic lists of do’s and don’t’s .
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