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    Revival Youth Study Book: Faith as Wesley Lived It
    Revival Youth Study Book: Faith as Wesley Lived It
    Revival Youth Study Book: Faith as Wesley Lived It
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    Revival Youth Study Book: Faith as Wesley Lived It

    By Adam Hamilton

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    Join Adam Hamilton for a six-week journey as he travels to England, following the life of John Wesley and exploring his defining characteristics of a Wesleyan Christian. Wesley’s story is our story. It defines our faith and it challenges us to rediscover our spiritual passion.


    Everything needed to conduct a six-week study and help youth grades 6-12 define what the Christian life looks like through the eyes of a Wesleyan Christian. Can be used with the adult-level DVD.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateAug 12, 2014
    ISBN9781426793899
    Revival Youth Study Book: Faith as Wesley Lived It
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    Adam Hamilton

    Adam Hamilton is the founding pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Kansas City. Started in 1990 with four people, the church has grown to become the largest United Methodist Church in the United States with over 18,000 members. The church is well known for connecting with agnostics, skeptics, and spiritual seekers. In 2012, it was recognized as the most influential mainline church in America, and Hamilton was asked by the White House to deliver the sermon at the Obama inaugural prayer service. Hamilton, whose theological training includes an undergraduate degree from Oral Roberts University and a graduate degree from Southern Methodist University where he was honored for his work in social ethics, is the author of nineteen books. He has been married to his wife, LaVon, for thirty-one years and has two adult daughters.

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      Revival Youth Study Book - Adam Hamilton

      Session 1

      Precursors to Revival

      "Write this to the angel of the church in Ephesus: . . .

      I know your works, your labor, and your endurance. . . . But I have this against you: you have let go of the love you had at first. So remember the high point from which you have fallen. Change your hearts and lives and do the things you did at first."

      —Revelation 2:1, 2, 4-5

      If you start with the opening chapter of Genesis and read the Bible straight through, you’ll notice a couple things right away. First, you’ll notice that God calls upon and works through some pretty messed-up people. For instance, Israel—the name of God’s people—actually comes from a name God gave to Jacob. Jacob, whom we meet in Genesis 25, cheated his brother out of his rightful share of their father’s inheritance, cheated his father-in-law out of some choice livestock, and played favorites with his wives and children. Yet Jacob, by God’s design, became the father of God’s people. Later, we see God work through Moses (a murderer), David (who committed an affair with a married woman and tried to cover it up by having the woman’s husband killed), and Mary Magdalene (who was said to have been possessed by seven demons).

      Second, you’ll notice that God is always working to fix what is broken. You’ll see God deliver the people of Israel from slavery in Egypt, then later deliver the people of Judah from exile in Babylon. You’ll see God respond with judgment, but also with grace and patience and mercy, when God’s people go astray or turn to idols. Most significantly, you’ll see God become human in the person of Jesus—defeating death and delivering the world from sin.

      These themes—God working through flawed people and God redeeming what is broken—aren’t confined to the Bible. We also encounter them throughout the history of the church. Over and over again, God’s people fall short of what God wants for us. And over and over again, God finds ways to fix our brokenness, often working through prophets and reformers who have plenty of flaws of their own.

      Today there are thousands of Christian denominations around the world, and many of them trace their beginnings to a particular prophet or reformer who called people back to God when they had gone astray. In the Roman Catholic Church, for instance, the Franciscan and Dominican orders are named after Saints Francis and Dominic, respectively. Lutherans trace their heritage to Martin Luther (hence their name), and Calvinist theologians draw from the work of John Calvin. Mennonites are named for their spiritual forebear, Menno Simons.

      United Methodists and other Methodists and Wesleyans trace their spiritual lineage back to John Wesley, an eighteenth-century priest in the Church of England. You probably won’t find Wesley’s name on a list of Christian reformers. He didn’t really reform the church the way that Martin Luther or John Calvin did. Those reformers were interested in challenging the church’s power structure and doctrines. In that regard, Wesley wasn’t really a reformer. He was more of a revivalist.

      To revive means to restore to life or to full strength, much as emergency medical personnel might revive a patient who has lost consciousness or had a heart attack. In the church, revival refers to a period of spiritual renewal, usually following a period of apathy and decline.

      Though John Wesley inspired the founding of many Christian denominations, he never intended to operate outside of the Church of England. Instead of starting a new church, Wesley sought to bring new life and new energy to the church he had dedicated his life to.

      Two Centuries of Religious Unrest

      John Wesley was born in Epworth, England, on June 17, 1703, to Samuel and Susanna Wesley. Samuel was a priest in the Church of England. He pastored St. Andrew’s Church in Epworth, a town in England about 150 miles north of

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