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Does your team do better on the road or at home?

This article explores the migration of Wesley's Methodism from rural areas to urban centers, highlighting the role of societies within the Anglican church. It discusses the rules that guide behavior, the impact of poverty institutions, the small group system, tickets for field preaching, and the lay-driven nature of American Methodism. The text also touches upon the growth of Methodism in the 1800-1850 period, the emergence of Holiness Camp Meetings and Sunday Schools, and the relevance of camp meetings in the present day. The article concludes by exploring the future of this church and the rules that should guide it.

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Does your team do better on the road or at home?

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  1. Does your team do better on the road or at home?

  2. Wesley's Methodism: a vast migration from rural to urban. - Societies within Anglican church - 3 Rules guide behavior - poverty institutions - small group system - tickets - field preaching - lay driven

  3. American Methodism: vast migration from urban to prairie. - Methodist Episcopal Church - Circuit Riders - Class Meetings

  4. 1/15 1/7 1800 1850

  5. - Holiness Camp Meetings - Sunday School - “brush arbor” revivals

  6. Masada Retreat Center Little Grassy Camp

  7. Pentecostal Church of God Campground Wilsonville, IL The camp meeting is still with us!

  8. The Chicago Tribune in 1881 reported on a lecture by agnostic philosopher Robert Ingersol, who declared "the churches are dying all over the earth; they are struck with death and all will soon be dead." "Dear Robert: All hail the power of Jesus' name. We're building more than one new Methodist Church every day of the year and propose to make it soon two a day." Signed C. C. McCabe.

  9. Building 2 a day: 1860-1920 1 million → 4 million What made this work so well? Lack of alternatives helped.

  10. At one time, we knew our neighbors well enough to know when they needed help, when they needed prayer and when they were ready for an invitation to church.

  11. Over half the congregations present in the predecessor denominations in 1900 or organized since no longer exist. Forty acres of land was once a family farm. Illinois average: 372 acres. Kansas: 748 acres. South Dakota: 1,418 acres. National average: 487 acres. (1997 USDA)‏

  12. This church is where the people are now. This church has many choices. It has many resources – from the past and in the present. Some things are the same. Some are very different.

  13. One Minute for God: What rules should guide this church into the future?

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