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		<title>A Love Feast for Covenant Discipleship Groups</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 16:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Manskar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Love Feast was, for many years, an important part of life in the Methodist societies. John Wesley adapted it from the Moravian Agape Meal. It was an informal time of prayer, singing, testimony, and sharing of food and water. &#8230; <a href="http://wesleyanleadership.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/a-love-feast-for-covenant-discipleship-groups/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wesleyanleadership.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11399101&#038;post=692&#038;subd=wesleyanleadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Manskar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Methodist is a Christian training to love God with all his or her heart, soul, and mind. A Methodist is also a Christian training to love his or her neighbor as himself or herself. In this final post of &#8230; <a href="http://wesleyanleadership.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/whats-a-methodist-part-4-of-4/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wesleyanleadership.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11399101&#038;post=688&#038;subd=wesleyanleadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Practice the Basics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Manskar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus … Therefore … work out your own salvation; for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his &#8230; <a href="http://wesleyanleadership.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/practice-the-basics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wesleyanleadership.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11399101&#038;post=680&#038;subd=wesleyanleadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s a Methodist? (part 3 of 4)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Manskar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I began this series of posts by telling the story of a Wednesday night church dinner conversation with a young woman who asked, “What’s a Methodist?” In reply I said, “A Methodist is a Christian who loves God with all &#8230; <a href="http://wesleyanleadership.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/whats-a-methodist-part-3-of-4/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wesleyanleadership.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11399101&#038;post=675&#038;subd=wesleyanleadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The bands of death are torn away, the yawning tomb gives back its prey.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 03:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Manskar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Charles Wesley wrote several resurrection hymns. The one I have chosen here is from a 1746 collection. Wesley declares that that God&#8217;s power, which is love and life, is more powerful than death. &#8230; <a href="http://wesleyanleadership.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/the-bands-of-death-are-torn-away-the-yawning-tomb-gives-back-its-prey/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wesleyanleadership.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11399101&#038;post=670&#038;subd=wesleyanleadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It is finished&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Manskar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When Jesus had received the wine, he said, ‘It is finished.’ Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.” John 19:30 What does “it” mean? Is “it” Jesus’ life? Certainly these words from his lips mark the end of &#8230; <a href="http://wesleyanleadership.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/it-is-finished/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wesleyanleadership.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11399101&#038;post=655&#038;subd=wesleyanleadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>O Love Divine, What Hast Thou Done</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Manskar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hymns have always been an important devotional resource for the people called Methodists. John and Charles Wesley published many collections of hymns. The hymns were sung in class, band, and society meetings and at Love Feasts. The people carried their hymns &#8230; <a href="http://wesleyanleadership.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/o-love-divine-what-hast-thou-done/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wesleyanleadership.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11399101&#038;post=651&#038;subd=wesleyanleadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s a Methodist? &#8230; continued &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://wesleyanleadership.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/whats-a-methodist-continued/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Manskar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post I attempted to answer the question, &#8220;What&#8217;s a Methodist?&#8221; My reply, given to a visitor to the United Methodist congregation with which I am affiliated, was: &#8220;A Methodist is a Christian who is training to love &#8230; <a href="http://wesleyanleadership.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/whats-a-methodist-continued/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wesleyanleadership.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11399101&#038;post=646&#038;subd=wesleyanleadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s a Methodist?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Manskar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I occasionally go to church for dinner on Wednesday night. A few weeks ago I took my plate of food and sat down at an empty table. A young woman was alone at another table, saw me sitting by myself, &#8230; <a href="http://wesleyanleadership.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/whats-a-methodist/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wesleyanleadership.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11399101&#038;post=642&#038;subd=wesleyanleadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Witness to Jesus Christ in the World through Acts of Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Manskar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How is your group doing with acts of justice? If you are in a typical Covenant Discipleship group, I suspect you find justice to be the most difficult part of the covenant to keep. This is why groups frequently place &#8230; <a href="http://wesleyanleadership.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/witness-to-jesus-christ-in-the-world-through-acts-of-justice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wesleyanleadership.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11399101&#038;post=639&#038;subd=wesleyanleadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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