Kevin M. Watson offers the first in-depth examination of the early
Methodist band meeting: a small group of five to seven people
focusing on the confession of sin in order to grow in holiness. The
''social holiness'' of the band meeting figures significantly both
in the development of eighteenth-century British Methodism and in
understanding shifting forms of community in the context of rapidly
changing British society. Arguing that neither John Wesley's
theology nor popular Methodism can be understood independent of
each other, Watson shows how Wesley synthesized important aspects
of Anglican (an emphasis on a disciplined practice of the means of
grace) and Moravian (an emphasis on an experience of justification
by faith and the witness of the Spirit) piety in his own version of
the band meeting. The small groups were of particular significance
in John Wesley's theology of discipleship because the bands united
his emphasis on the importance of holiness with his conviction that
Christians are most likely to make progress in the Christian life
together, rather than in isolation.
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