Before beginning, please read Specific Course Requirements, Essay Assignment. Write a 500-700 word Essay (Approximately 2 pages double spaced, not including Cover Page and Bibliography Page). Based on your reading in the course texts, Power Verses & Prayers, and the Manifesto of Spiritual Formation (located in Week 2 Preparation document), write an Essay:

Summarize Wesley’s principles of the Root Problem of Original Sin.
Describe how Bruce’s ChristFollower Life Principle of Becoming People Inundated by the Word can cultivate and energize essential solutions for dealing with the Root Problem of Original Sin.
Connect this discussion to the larger context of Spiritual formation: shaping our inner lives and relationships with God in ways that transform our outer lives and relationships with other persons. We accomplish this by becoming People Inundated by the Word, People Immersed in Prayer, and People Ignited by Worship which shapes us into People Infused with God.
How does this relate to developing and empowering a vital faith that works in everyday living, in life-transforming ways, to serve the present age in which we are commissioned to minister?
What fresh, descriptive language and methods could be used to communicate these principles through the MACU mission of Head, Heart, and Hands to the current generations?
Show evidence of reading course texts primarily, and other supplemental research you may discover