Written to assist individuals in becoming serious disciples of Jesus, this study guide focuses on leading readers to an intimate relationship with God and teaches ways to reflect His nature. Study of and prayer on the stories, passages, and questions contained within this twelve-session workbook will certainly strengthen personal spiritual quests and will invite discussion of truth and experience with others.
Allan Coppedge is presently the Beeson Professor of Christion Theology at Asbury Theological Seminary. He received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge in historical theology. In addition to post-doctoral research on American Methodist history and theology at Johns Hopkins University, his education includes degrees from Asbury Seminary, the University of Edinburgh, and Emory University. Coppedge is the author of
John Wesley in Theological Debate and
The Biblical Principles of Discipleship and has cowritten several guidebooks and Bible study books. He and his wife, Elizabeth (Kinlaw), have four children and live in Wilmore, Kentucky.
William Ury is a professor of historical and systematic theology at Wesley Biblical Seminary. Ury graduated from Asbury College before taking graduate courses at the Institute of Holy Land Studies and obtaining his M.Div. degree at Asbury Theological Seminary and his doctorate at Drew University. He served as an assistant pastor for several United Methodist churches before becoming a pastor. The author of many published articles in prominent Christian magazines, Ury has also cowritten several biblical guidebooks with Allan Coppedge. Ury and his wife, Diane (Nelson) Ury, live in Jackson, Mississippi, and have four children.