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    The Wesley Challenge Leader Guide: 21 Days to a More Authentic Faith
    The Wesley Challenge Leader Guide: 21 Days to a More Authentic Faith
    The Wesley Challenge Leader Guide: 21 Days to a More Authentic Faith
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    The Wesley Challenge Leader Guide: 21 Days to a More Authentic Faith

    By Chris Folmsbee

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    In the Wesley 21-day Challenge small groups or whole churches will spend three weeks working through 21 questions that will engage their physical, spiritual and emotional lives and their relationship with God and others.


    With fast-paced emphasis on graphics and short content bits, the challenge will inspire us to a new kind of commitment—one that is more authentic, vulnerable and soul shaping resulting in thousands of people who have a renewed passion to discover deeper levels of commitment to God and others.

    The Leader Guide contains everything needed to guide a group through the 21 day challenge including session plans and discussion questions, as well as multiple format options.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateJun 20, 2017
    ISBN9781501832932
    The Wesley Challenge Leader Guide: 21 Days to a More Authentic Faith
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    Chris Folmsbee

    Chris Folmsbee has served as a youth pastor for nearly 15 years, and now serves as a volunteer youth worker in his local church. He currently leads Barefoot Ministries, a youth ministry training and publishing company located in Kansas City, and is on staff with Youthfront. Chris is the author of several books including his most recent, Story, Signs, and Sacred Rhythms: A Narrative Approach to Youth Ministry. He lives in Overland Park, Kansas, with his wife, Gina, and their three children, Megan, Drew, and Luke.

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      The Wesley Challenge Leader Guide - Chris Folmsbee

      The Wesley Challenge:

      21 Days to a More Authentic Faith

      Leader Guide

      The Wesley Challenge:

      21 Days to a More Authentic Faith

      The Wesley Challenge

      978-1-5018-3290-1

      978-1-5018-3291-8 eBook

      The Wesley Challenge: DVD

      978-1-5018-3294-9

      The Wesley Challenge: Leader Guide

      978-1-5018-3292-5

      978-1-5018-3293-2 eBook

      The Wesley Challenge: Youth Study Book

      978-1-5018-3298-7

      978-1-5018-3299-4 eBook

      The Wesley Challenge: Campaign Download Package

      978-1-5018-3300-7

      CHRIS FOLMSBEE

      the

      WESLEY

      challenge

      21 DAYS TO A MORE AUTHENTIC FAITH

      Leader Guide

      by Maria Mayo

      The Wesley Challenge

      21 Days to a More Authentic Faith

      Leader Guide

      Copyright © 2017 by 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, P.O. Box 280988, Nashville, TN 37228-0988; 2222 Rosa L. Parks Boulevard, Nashville, TN 37228-1306; or e-mailed to permissions@umpublishing.org.

      This book is printed on elemental, chlorine-free paper.

      ISBN 978-1-5018-3292-5

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

      17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 — 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      CONTENTS

      To the Leader

      Session 1. Relationship with God: an Upward Focus

      Session 2. Relationship with Self: an Inward Focus

      Session 3. Relationship with Others: an Outward Focus

      How to Start an Accountability Group

      Notes

      TO THE LEADER

      In The Wesley Challenge: 21 Days to a More Authentic Faith, Chris Folmsbee explores twenty-one questions John Wesley used in Oxford, England, with the group that was nicknamed The Holy Club. By exploring each of these questions, both individually and as a group, participants may find a more sustainable union with God through everyday practices. Growing in the lives God intended for us involves both talking about and living out the teachings of Jesus. Each of the three sessions in this study addresses seven of the questions, grouped into three categories: Relationship with God, Relationship with Self, and Relationship with Others. Since Wesley originally intended the practices resulting from engaging these questions to be lived out in a group of Christian brothers and sisters, the challenges in this book are best explored in the context of a group.

      In this study, Folmsbee challenges readers to the difficult questions of faith in practice. From Do I go to bed on time? to Is Jesus real to me? the questions touch every aspect of life and faith. As group leader, you will guide others in a process of discernment that will help you to come together around discussions of prayer, faithful living, relationships, and spirituality. This process is dependent on the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Scripture tells us that where two or three are gathered together, we can be assured of the presence of Christ, working in and through all those gathered. As you prepare to lead, pray for that presence and expect that you will experience it.

      This three-session study makes use of the following components:

      •the book The Wesley Challenge: 21 Days to a More Authentic

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