Meet the Goodpeople

Publisher Description

At least 180 million Americans are functionally non-Christian. Christianity is growing worldwide, but in the United States it is on a steep decline, especially among younger generations. Author and pastor Roger Ross, with help from John Wesley, proposes a spiritual revival. The genius of Wesley's movement can be found in the ways he engaged people who had given up on or been disenfranchised by the church. Ross identifies seven strategies or tactics John Wesley used, and shows how they can work again now. In Meet the Goodpeople, Ross reveals striking similarities between spiritual conditions today and those in 18th Century England, where Wesley's ministry began. He demonstrates how we can recover key methods of the early Methodist movement, which reached the non-churched masses of that day. He shows how to re-tool those practices for a 21st century context, and how to re-shape receptive individuals, groups, and churches to lead pre-Christian people into a transforming relationship with Jesus and his church.