Abstract
The Good News can be understood as the message of the missio Dei to which varying methods can be attached. Churches, however, often specialize in a specific part or method of that mission, e.g., helping the needy, emphasizing conversion, or promoting discipleship. This article suggests the Good News has yielded significant historical impact when churches embrace a comprehensive or holistic understanding of the Good News that includes three methodological components: establishing legitimacy by meeting the needs of non-believers, effectively facilitating conversion, and spiritual formation in small communal groups. Missional and effective evangelism nomenclature will be discussed in relation to this holism. Finally, examples of simultaneous methodology will be drawn from the experiences of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, as well as from experiences of the author while studying Wesley‘s original letters and traveling the settings of John Wesley.
Recommended Citation
Whitesel, B. (2013). A Holistic Good News: Missional, Effective Evangelism and Lessons Learned While Traveling in the Hoof Prints of Wesley. Great Commission Research Journal, 5(1), 52-65. Retrieved from https://place.asburyseminary.edu/gcrj/vol5/iss1/6
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