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    The Wesleyan Journey Pastor Guide: A Workbook on Salvation
    The Wesleyan Journey Pastor Guide: A Workbook on Salvation
    The Wesleyan Journey Pastor Guide: A Workbook on Salvation
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    The Wesleyan Journey Pastor Guide: A Workbook on Salvation

    By Maxie Dunnam

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    The transforming work of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer was a central theme of John Wesley's life and work.


    In The Wesleyan Journey: A Workbook on Salvation, beloved pastor and author Maxie Dunnam invites readers to spend time every day exploring Wesley’s understanding of salvation through prayer, study, and reflection.


    Based on John Wesley’s theology and the Bible’s teaching on what it means to be saved, this workbook will help readers consider anew God’s ever-present grace, the experience of acceptance, pardon, and forgiveness, and the lifelong journey to become more Christ-like.


    The Pastor Guide offers guidance and tips for pastors on how to use, promote, and share this study, with ideas for how to incorporate it into worship and invite people into the journey. It also contains short session guides and leader helps to facilitate group discussion through an eight-week study.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateMar 17, 2020
    ISBN9781501898419
    The Wesleyan Journey Pastor Guide: A Workbook on Salvation
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    Maxie Dunnam

    Maxie D. Dunnam became the fifth president of Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky and served for 14 years. Dunnam came to Asbury after 12 years of fruitful ministry at the 5,000-member Christ United Methodist Church in Memphis, Tennessee. From 1975–1982, Dunnam was world editor of The Upper Room. Dunnam is the author of more than 40 books, including the best-selling Workbook of Living Prayer (over one million copies sold). Dunnam presently serves as director of Christ Church Global at Christ United Methodist Church in Memphis, Tennessee.

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      The Wesleyan Journey Pastor Guide - Maxie Dunnam

      Maxie Dunnam

      The Wesleyan Journey

      A Workbook on Salvation

      Pastor Guide

      Edited by Victoria A. Rebeck

      The Wesleyan Journey Pastor Guide

      Copyright © 2020 Abingdon Press

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted by the 1976 Copyright Act or in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission can be addressed to Permissions, The United Methodist Publishing House, 2222 Rosa L. Parks Blvd., Nashville, TN 37228-1306 or emailed to permissions@umpublishing.org.

      ISBN 13: 978-1-5018-9840-2

      Scripture quotations unless noted otherwise are taken from the Common English Bible, copyright 2011. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations noted KJV are from The Authorized (King James) Version. Rights in the Authorized Version in the United Kingdom are vested in the Crown. Reproduced by permission of the Crown’s patentee, Cambridge University Press.

      20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 — 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Session One

      It’s All About Salvation

      Session Two

      For Us and for Our Salvation

      Session Three

      Death and Life, Sin and Grace

      Session Four

      The Blessings of Justification

      Session Five

      Certainty with Tension

      Session Six

      The Cross and the Indwelling Christ

      Session Seven

      Sanctifying Grace and Holiness

      Session Eight

      Growing On to Salvation

      INTRODUCTION

      In his book The Wesleyan Journey: A Workbook on Salvation, Maxie Dunnam invites readers to view the scriptural teaching on salvation through the eyes of John and Charles Wesley, the founders of Methodism. This accessible, enlightening workbook helps readers adopt for their own lives a deeper, practical understanding of salvation.

      Dunnam points out in his introduction to the workbook that to be a Christian, one is ever becoming a Christian. Salvation is not only an initial decision to accept God’s grace, but the continual yielding to God’s work of transforming us. Conversion—passing from death to life—may be a miracle of a moment, but the making of a saint is a process of a lifetime, he observes. The workbook, which can be used in individual and group study, provides signposts along that path.

      The Study’s Influence on Making Disciples

      It can be easy for churches to lose sight of the importance of salvation, coming to focus instead on programs, specific ministries, or nurturing community. But returning our attention to this basic Christian doctrine, salvation, can contribute to congregational renewal. Salvation has been thought by some as a pass out of hell, which would be a static salvation that does not change the recipient. But the Wesleys understood salvation as a movement toward spiritual maturity and wholeness. Accepting salvation entails intentional effort on the part of the believer. This, the Wesleys believed, was best supported through small groups for spiritual accountability. This is not salvation by works, but salvation

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