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Derek Cooper
Before You Pioneer: Insights from Wesley’s Conversion and Spiritual Formation
Derek Cooper | 11 May 2016
Rekindling His Relationship with the Moravians After struggling and failing as a missionary in the US, John Wesley returned to Britain, where he developed a reputation as a radical. It was...
John Wesley: What Happened Before the Success Story
Derek Cooper | 9 May 2016
He was returning home a failure. In less than three years of pioneer pastoring in Savannah, Georgia, the Anglican priest John Wesley had bitten off more ministry than he could...
14 Innovations From Wesley’s Mission Failures
Derek Cooper | 2 Mar 2016
A century before Methodism became the largest single denomination in the United States, it was a fresh expression on life support. This fresh expression’s survival was not endangered by the...