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About the Contributor(s): Henry H. Knight III is Donald and Pearl
Wright Professor of Wesleyan Studies at Saint Paul School of
Theology in Kansas City, Missouri. He is the author of seven books,
including A Future for Truth (1997) and Is There a Future for God's
Love? (2012), and editor of From Aldersgate to Azusa Street (2010).
Traditional views of evangelism are often intimidating and push the
limits of personal comfort, leaving the job of reaching out to new
and searching Christians for the professionals - the clergy of the
church. Knight and Powe show how this basic misunderstanding is
contrary to John Wesley's view of evangelism, which he understood
as a complete circle. Once one has been evangelized to and welcomed
into the faith, part of the transformation of their lives includes
Christ's teaching, which is to help the evangelized to become
welcomed in the faith. The key to Wesley's way of sharing the faith
is to relate to others in love, compassion and gratitude for God's
divine grace. Knight and Powe's explanation of evangelism is
steeped in the Wesleyan tradition, exposing how God's love and
grace comes to each of us as we once received it, through the gift
of proclamation. A true transformative act of evangelism is
R.E.L.A.T.I.O.N.A.L.: Renewal; Enter; Listening; Acceptance;
Testimony; Inviting; On-Going; New Beings; Assurance; Live-It. As
Christians, we are not to keep the gift we receive through
evangelism; we are to live out what we learn in community and
study, by inviting others into this grace. Knight and Powe express
that evangelism should not be viewed as an ugly word or act that
most fear to live out, but as a way for one friend in Christ to
welcome another friend in Christ to the faith.
While the most standard treatments of John Wesley's theology focus
their attention on his distinctive 'way of salvation', they fail to
provide a thorough examination of Wesley's 'means of grace.' This
book offers the first detailed discussion of the means of grace as
the liturgical, communal, and devotional context within which
growth in the Christian life actually occurred. Knight shows how
the means of grace together form an interrelated pattern that
enables a growing relationship with God.
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