10 – Stereotyped
If you place a living person within a plaster of Paris mold, they will pass away if they are not quickly freed. This was somewhat how the class meeting was…
9 – Weakened
A time of spiritual decline in the Church was accompanied by the decline of the Class-meeting, just as the period of the Church’s greatest spirituality was also the period of…
8 – Right Arm of Methodism
The Class Meeting served as Methodism’s right arm for more than a century. The results of its ongoing revivals were preserved, leaving the mighty men of God who traveled and…
7 – Development of the Class Meeting
DEVELOPMENT OF THE CLASSMEETING. The institution, whose founding was described in the previous chapter, had a nurse on hand to care for it. John Wesley served as that nurse. We…
6 – Birth of the Methodist Class-Meeting
The class meeting wasn’t organized or arranged in advance. It was a fortunate birth. God, not man, was the one who accomplished it. It began as a financial scheme. As…
5 – Preparatory
“If you wish to serve God and go to heaven; remember you cannot serve him alone; yon must therefore find companions, or make them; the Bible knows nothing of solitary…
4 – New Testament Practice
The New Testament is replete with references to the social component of religion. Together, “the twelve” were instructed and trained by the Master. These chosen men reacted to one another…
3 – The Bible Teaching
The principles briefly mentioned in the previous chapters are consistent with how the Bible teaches on this topic. What we might anticipate is this. The author of the Bible is…
2 – The Social Instinct
THE moral nature is a unit. One of the wonders of Infinite Wisdom and Goodness is the correlation between the loves and how they impact one another. In the Bible…
1 – God’s Method
God enjoys honoring his earthly offspring by using them as tools for mutual blessing. His strategy is to primarily employ instrumentality and intermediate agency. The divine government’s entire structure is…