Monday, 29 September 2008

Wesleyan class meetings

This quote is from page 119 of William A. Beckham's The Second Reformation:Reshaping the Church for the 21st Century.

'Each person reported on his or her spiritual progress, or on particular needs or problems, and received the support and prayers of the others.'

Seems to me that the Wesleyan class meetings were an early form of what I envision open mic church to look like. If every church functioned in this way, with freedom to share and support each other instead of pretending everything is hunky dory for an hour every week, God's army would be taking far more ground than at present. We have to be real with each other and with God, or we are letting Him down. It is time for change!

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