About

About the course

On the Way is a digital discipleship course written by Adrian Roux for the South Kent Methodist Circuit and beyond. It works through Mark's Gospel in sixteen sessions, structured around the gospel's own architectural pivot at chapter 8.

The course is rooted in the Wesleyan tradition: prevenient grace, social holiness, the means of grace, personal piety integrated with social action. Liberation theology is its closest conversation partner — the language of Freire, Tutu, Ubuntu, structural sin, systemic injustice. The incarnational is the default frame: God present in the ordinary, the broken, and the searching.

The course is heavily indebted to Ched Myers' Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus (Orbis, 1988; anniversary edition 2008). Where Myers and the Wesleyan-liberationist register diverge, the course holds them in conversation rather than picking one over the other.

Each session in three layers

Pre-session preparation, spread across the days before the small group meets — about thirty minutes of reading, listening, and reflection rather than one block of screen time.

In-session work, ninety minutes to two hours, designed for small lay-led groups. Welcome and recap; the passage read aloud; first impressions; an exegetical key supported by short video segments and slides; open conversation; close with prayer.

After-session reflection through the week, working with the Methodist Way of Life as the frame for living the passage out. The heart of the week is named in one sentence at the top; four reflections under the four MWoL commitments follow.

Author

Adrian Roux is a Methodist presbyter and Superintendent Minister of the South Kent Methodist Circuit, with an MBA awarded with distinction and a Masters in Theology focused on incarnational pneumatology. He preaches across six churches in Ashford and Folkestone & Hythe and lives with his family in Kent.