Marks of a Movement: What the Church Today Can Learn From the Wesleyan Revival

About the Author Winfield Bevins is the Director of Church Planting at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. He frequently speaks at conferences on a variety of topics and is a regular adjunct professor at several seminaries. As an author, one of his passions is to help others connect to the roots of the Christian faith for spiritual formation and mission. You can find out more about him at his website winfieldbevins.com.  Marks of a Movement calls us back to the disciple-making mandate of the church through the timeless wisdom of John Wesley and the Methodist movement. With a love for history and a passion for today's church, Winfield helps us reimagine church multiplication in a way that focuses on making and multiplying disciples for the twenty-first century.Winfield Bevins reminds us of the vital multiplication lessons from the Wesleyan movement, one of the greatest missional movements the world has ever known. He highlights the necessity of discipleship as the starting point and the abiding strategic practice that is key to all lasting missional impact in and through movements. The Methodist movement is an example of the power of multiplying movements that utilize the strategy of discipleship. Within a generation, one in thirty people who were living in Britain had become Methodists, and the movement soon became a worldwide phenomenon.We in the Western Church need a movement of historic proportions once again. What would such a multiplication movement look like for us today? We must look to the past to gain wisdom for the future. And as we look at the pages of church history, there is no better example of a multiplication movement in the West than the Methodist movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Marks of a Movement highlights the lessons and key insights that enable us to learn from the past and reapply this timeless, biblical wisdom for today. Review Inspirational and to-the- point. If you want to know how our Father worked through those early Methodists to launch a global multiplication movement, then read this book! Bevins calls us to learn from the wisdom of those who have gone before us, and we must heed his call. Read, learn, and apply! -- J. D. Payne, professor of Christian ministry at Samford University and author of Apostolic Church PlantingWith a powerful simplicity, Bevins has written a brief book distilling John Wesley’s wisdom of the past to help us move forward on God’s mission. His excellent overview of Wesley’s life and strategies of “movement making” are crystal clear and compelling. For any leader interested in seeing a gospel movement, Marks of a Movement is an essential resource. -- Rev. Dr. Larry Walkemeyer, lead pastor, Light & Life Christian Fellowship; superintendent, Southern California Free Methodist; director of equipping, ExponentialHistory at its best accurately reflects on what happened and builds vision for what can yet happen. Bevins highlights the people and the practices of one of the great movements of Christianity---and inspires us to multiply disciples and churches in our generation. -- Wayne Schmidt, general superintendent, The Wesleyan ChurchWinfield masterfully summarizes John Wesley and the Methodist movement. If you want to see a church multiplication movement happen in your context today, this is required reading. -- Daniel Im, author of No Silver Bullets, coauthor of Planting Missional Churches, and director of church multiplication, NewChurches.comMarks of a Movement is a concise account of the characteristics of the Methodist movement and its application for today. I’ve read a lot of material on John Wesley and the Methodists, but this book has some valuable surprises. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of the greatest movements in history. -- Steve Addison, author of Pioneering MovementsIt’s impossible to read this book without getting excited about what the Holy Spirit has done and can do i