In an era of 10-step guides and church management policies that seem to change as often as the Michigan weather, the Rev. Christopher P. Momany, chaplain at Adrian College, believes new movements of the United Methodist Church have a lot to gain from a little “old-school” Wesleyan theology.
His new book "Doing Good: A Grace-Filled Approach to Holiness", released May 1 by Abingdon Press, is a short (80 pages) four-session teaching guide written to help shepherd individuals and small groups in their understanding of John Wesley’s approach to holiness.
Momany said the book will focus on four key areas: an exploration of the Wesleyan approach to law and grace, a look at how people can match faith with action, tools for Christian educators to use in teaching important Wesleyan doctrine and strategies to express Christianity in ways that attract others to God and the life of the church.
Momany is a strong proponent of getting people to understand their intrinsic worth in God’s kingdom and he said his book is designed to link the Wesleyan tradition of holy love to social justice.
“If I were to come at college students with a lot of management theory and magic keys to growing the church and congregational tips for measuring success and failure and all that stuff, all the people I work with who are already burned out by Christianity would, would either roll their eyes or yawn,” Momany said. “But if I come out and say, ‘This guy Jesus is terrific and look at this ethic and this way of living love because of the way God lived love for us,’ we’re getting a lot of second looks.”
The book is available for purchase through Cokesbury, as well as other online vendors such as Amazon.com.
To order through Cokesbury, visit one of their 60 retail locations, call their customer service center at 800-672-1789, or visit www.cokesbury.com.
Momany said an e-book edition for the Kindle and Nook would be released later this month.
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