WESLEY GUILD
Wesley Guild is an organisation in the methodist church that brings the youth together to understand each other,discuss issues and also to grow spiritually and help others.
WELSLEY GUILD HAS FOUR C's
CONCECRATION
Learning to dedicate our lives to Christ and commit ourselves to His services.This would be done by : --Music (praise andworship,etc)--Prayer (public & private prayer, praying for people, etc)--Reading the Bible and relevant books --Evangelism (spreading the Word, preaching…) --Living a devotional life Silence before God (Obeying God’s will)--Fasting ( alone or as a group but its vital for Guilders)
CREATIVITY
NB: The C was changed to creativity because the Guilders tends to concentrate oncultural issues only.Liberate our intellect, giving new ideas and learning to understand ourselves in this planet and be creative also explore about things even our religion. This is done through debates workshops, special events so on. Its about creative ideas keeping in mind our faith.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Committing ourselves to the well being of others at all levels of need. Developing our communities starting with the church community in any way spiritually, academically so on. These can be done by :-- projectsvisits---talks--- teaching sharing--- feeding the hungry--- help the needy
COMRADESHIP
It encourages fellowship amongst the Guilders themselves first and the youth inside or outside the church. Young people are flexible, so we play games, watch movies, have talkshows. Guild is a family,its aim is to build relationships with everyone, committing ourselves to one another and our spiritual growth. Games, movies, camps, talkshows etc are just means not the end so Guilders must move beyond them.
PLEDGE
I (your name) desire by the grace of God to live a Christian life and to take an active part in promoting the aims and objectives of the Wesley Guild.
Go, Unite, Inspire, Love,Develop.
''One heart, One Way''
THE FOUR ALLs METHODISM
John Wesley did not pen the 4 Alls. Rather early in the 20th century William Fitzgerald summarised the core emphases looking back on the first Methodists. (William Fitzgerald, The Roots of Methodism (Epworth, 1903)).
These are expressed:
- All need to be saved
- All can be saved
- All can know they are saved
- All can be saved to the uttermost
All need to be saved means that everyone is in need of God’s saving love and no one can save themselves. As Paul puts it writing to the Romans ‘There is no one who is righteous, not even one; there is no one who has understanding, there is no one who seeks God. All have turned aside …’ (Romans 3.10-12)
All can be saved is Methodism’s Arminian emphasis. Unlike some Calvinists who believed that only a chosen number are to be saved and that others cannot be, John Wesley was convinced that God invited everyone, though we might chose not to go to it. Again Paul’s words seem to convey that idea when he says ‘For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died. It is also implicit in many of the parables of Jesus about the banquet feast to which the poor and the outcast are invited to take their place (Matthew 22.2-14). Charles Wesley’s hymn put it like this:
O for a trumpet voice
On all the world to call
To bid their hearts rejoice
In him who died for all!
For all, my Lord was crucified,
For all, for all my saviour died
All can know they are saved is the conviction that every person can know the love of God in their own hearts and minds. John Wesley referred to Paul’s words in Romans 8 to support his belief that God’s Spirit witnesses with our spirit that we are.
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, "Abba! Father!" it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ-- if, in fact, we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him. (Romans 8. 14-17).
This is sometimes called the doctrine of assurance.
All can be saved to the uttermost expresses well the holiness to which all Christians are called. God is at work in and through to draw us into his life and to be us complete in Christ. This is sometimes called ‘sanctification’.
Another ‘All’ was added by George Eayrs in 1909. He suggested that the early Methodist also believed that ‘All must be witnesses to their salvation’, meaning that Christians are called to share the good news with others.
DOCTRINE
The Methodist Church claims and cherishes its place in the Holy Catholic
Church, which is the Body of Christ.
The Doctrines of the Evangelical Faith, which Methodism has held from the
beginning and still holds, are based upon the Divine revelation recorded in
the Holy Scriptures. The Methodist Church acknowledges this revelation
as the supreme rule of faith and practice. These Evangelical Doctrines, to
which the Preachers of the Methodist Church, Ministerial and Lay, are
pledged, are contained in Wesley’s Notes on the New Testament and his
Forty-four Sermons.
The Notes on the New Testament and the Forty-four Sermons are not
intended to impose a system of formal or speculative theology on Methodist
Preachers, but to set up standards of preaching and belief which should
secure loyalty to the fundamental truths of the Gospel of Redemption and to
ensure the continued witness of the Church to the realities of the Christian
experience of Salvation.
Conference is the final authority within the Church with regard to its doctrines
and all questions concerning the interpretation of its doctrines.
Christ’s ministers in the Church are stewards in the household of God, and
shepherds of His flock. Some are called and ordained to this sole
occupation, and have a principal and directing part in these great duties.
It is the universal conviction of the Methodist people that the office of the
Christian Ministry depends upon the call of God, who bestows the gifts of
the Spirit, the grace and the fruit of which indicate those whom God has
chosen.
Those whom the Church recognises as called of God, and therefore receives
into its Ministry, shall be ordained by the imposition of hands with prayer to
the Holy Spirit for authority for the office and work of a Minister in the Church
of Christ, thus expressing the Church’s recognition of the Minister’s personal
call.
The Preachers, itinerant and lay, are examined, tested and approved before
they are authorised to minister in holy things. For the sake of Church Order
and not because of any priestly virtue inherent in the office, the Ministers of
the Church are set apart by ordination to the Ministry of the Word and
Sacraments.
