Leonard Sweet

The Greatest Story Never Told (eBook, ePUB)

Revive Us Again

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

God raises up Methodists for such a time as this. Here is a ditty Len Sweet's Methodist grandfather used to sing: A Methodist, a Methodist will I be A Methodist will I die. I've been baptized in the Methodist way And I'll live on the Methodist side. What "genius" of Methodism inspired this kind of love and loyalty in the earlier years of the faith? What did it mean to live in "the Methodist way" and to die on "the Methodist side?" Perhaps it is time to resurrect a neo-Wesleyan identity and to challenge the prevailing "one-calorie Methodism" that characterizes so much of our tribe today. What makes a Methodist? How can we re-ignite the spark of genius that motivated such commitment in our cloud of witnesses? The essence of Methodism's genius resides in two famous Wesleyan mantras: "heart strangely warmed" (inward experiences with a fire in the heart) and "the world is our parish" (outward experiences with waterfalls of cutting-edge intelligence). For Wesley, internal combustion, the former, led to external combustion, the latter. In the 18th century, Methodists in general (and in their younger years, the Wesley brothers themselves) were accused of being too "sexy." What else could all those "love feasts" and "strangely warmed hearts" be about? Why else were all those women in positions of leadership? With this book the author hopes to bring back to life some of Methodism's sexiness so that our current reproduction crisis can be reversed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781426756061
• Artikelnr.: 54004448

Autorenporträt

Author of more than two hundred articles, 1500+ published sermons, hundreds of YouTube vlogs, and over seventy books, Leonard Sweet's recent publications include "Rings of Fire," "Telos" (with Len Wilson), Contextual Intelligence (with Michael Beck), and "Designer Jesus" (forthcoming fall 2023), the companion volume to "Jesus Human."Sweet often appears on the "50 Most Influential Christians in America" listings, and in 2010 was selected by the top non-English Christian website Christian Telegraph as one of the "Top 10 Influential World Christians." His semiotic "LenTalks" are posted weekly on YouTube, and his "Napkin Scribbles" podcasts can be accessed on leonardsweet.com or Spotify. His Twitter and Facebook microblogs are widely read and quoted.Former President of United Theological Seminary, Vice-President of Graduate Studies at Drew University, and Dean of Drew Seminary, Dr. Sweet now works with graduate students at four institutions: Drew University, where he has occupied the E. Stanley Jones Chair, George Fox University, Northwind Seminary, and Southeastern University. Beginning in his late 20s, Sweet has written a lectionary-based sermon every week for various preaching resources like the journal Homiletics (11 years), preachingplus.com (six years), and sermons.com (eight years). In 2015 he launched his own homiletics resource preachthestory.com. One of the most sought-after speakers in the religious world today, he and his wife Tia and family reside on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands, where they operate a cottage and retreat (aka "advance") business called Sanctuary Seaside.