The Class Meeting Quotes

“In class meetings, however, participants actively discuss the state of their current relationship with God and how they are living out (and sometimes failing to live out) their faith.”
― Kevin Watson, The Class Meeting: Reclaiming a Forgotten (and Essential) Small Group Experience

“A class meeting is a small group that is primarily focused on transformation and not information, where people learn how to interpret their entire lives through the lens of the gospel, build a vocabulary for giving voice to their experience of God, and grow in faith in Christ.”
― Kevin Watson, The Class Meeting: Reclaiming a Forgotten (and Essential) Small Group Experience

“The goal of every Christian should be to become a disciple, a follower, of Jesus Christ.”
― Kevin Watson, The Class Meeting: Reclaiming a Forgotten (and Essential) Small Group Experience

“The most explosive growth of Methodism, however, actually came after the deaths of both George Whitefield and John Wesley.”
― Kevin Watson, The Class Meeting: Reclaiming a Forgotten (and Essential) Small Group Experience

“Christian discipleship, then, is more like an apprenticeship to Jesus Christ than it is about mastering a body of knowledge.”
― Kevin Watson, The Class Meeting: Reclaiming a Forgotten (and Essential) Small Group Experience

“C. S. Lewis offered one of my favorite definitions of humility: “[God] wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another.”
― Kevin Watson, The Class Meeting: Reclaiming a Forgotten (and Essential) Small Group Experience

“If your goal is to be a disciple of Jesus Christ and most of your focus has been on finding the church that will best meet your needs, figuring out which translation of the Bible is the best, or reading the best books on discipleship that you can find, but your life is the same as it was before—I would argue that you aren’t becoming a disciple. Nothing other than following Jesus Christ can make you his disciple.”
― Kevin Watson, The Class Meeting: Reclaiming a Forgotten (and Essential) Small Group Experience