In this exciting and inspiring new study, Scott J. Jones helps seekers and believers to envision and practice discipleship as a way of life. Presenting Christianity from a Wesleyan perspective, Jones invites participants into a deeper, more thoughtful, more active commitment to Christ. This Leader Guide includes everything a group leader needs to plan and facilitate the 8 sessions, helping participants to explore what they have read, to view avideo, and to discuss the reading and video with the group. The guide walks leaders through the study format and provides options for tailoring sessions to the time-frame and style of each group."

In this exciting and inspiring new study, Scott J. Jones helps seekers and believers to envision and practice discipleship as a way of life. Presenting Christianity from a Wesleyan perspective, Jones invites participants into a deeper, more thoughtful, more active commitment to Christ. This 8-session study helps participants focus on how, through discipleship with Jesus Christ, we become part of God s work in transforming the world.Each week a different presenter shares their personal faith experience. Presenters include Adam Hamilton, Olu Brown, Felicia Hopkins, Jessica Moffat Seay, Jorge Acevedo, Rob Fuquay and author Scott Jones. Mini-videos conclude each week with an interview or ministry story from the presenter s home church. Participants then read on their own from the student book and the Bible and then once a week the group comes together to explore what they've read and to view another video."

Despite wide acceptance of the "Wesleyan quadrilateral", significant disagreements have arisen in both academic and church circles about the degree to which Scripture stood in a place of theological primacy for Wesley, or should do so for modern Methodists, and about the proper and appropriate methods of interpreting Scripture. In this important work, Scott J. Jones offers a full-scale investigation of John Wesley's conception and use of Scripture. The results of this careful and thorough investigation are sometimes surprising. Jones argues that for Wesley, religious authority is constituted not by a "quadrilateral", but by a fivefold but unitary locus comprising Scripture, reason, Christian antiquity, the Church of England, and experience. He shows that in actual practice Wesley's reliance on the entire Christian tradition - in particular of the early church and of the Church of England - is far heavier than his stated conception of Scripture would seem to allow, and that Wesley stresses the interdependence of the five dimensions of religious authority for Christian faith and practice.

Leaders in congregations of all sizes will find a wealth of practical assistancefor reflecting on the current reality of their Sunday school and then planningspecific action that will strengthen the evangelistic outreach of classes and smallgroups. This flexible workshop can be used in a varietyof settings and includes everything a congregation needs for focusing the workof Sunday school for its mission of making disciples of JesusChrist.
The primary audience is a leadership group within thechurch, including Sunday school teachers. The workshop begins with a Bible studypointing to the "main thing," examines cultural changes that have contributed to thedecline of the church, and focuses on the potential within the Sunday school formaking new disciples. The presenter is Bishop Scott Jones. The process includesusing the included discussion guides and worksheets to help the leadership groupassess their church's possibilities and develop an action plan for realizing theirpotential through the Sunday school.