This site was generated out of almost twenty years of sermons, ordination papers, Bible studies, and weekly notes to a congregation written by Rev. Dr. Woods Lisenby. The corpus was mapped onto twenty-three doctrines, each hanging by a visible line from the foundation it depends on, informed by his sermon manuscripts and the practice library he has saved over his ministry. It is not offered as the definitive word on anything. It is a real-world example of a pastor working out his theology in the open, in a visual, connected way, and an AI assistant to answer your questions from the full text of what was actually written and preached rather than from the internet's guesses. Part of Doing Church Together, with the Resource Hub, Comparative Theology, and The Table alongside, and The Pastor’s Handbook for those new to ministry.
How to use it: click any doctrine to read its full treatment, in either an academic or plain-language version, and follow the connections from one locus into the next, or simply ask the assistant a question, about grace, about Scripture, about women in ministry, and read the sources it answers from.
* Every doctrine also has a plain-language version. Open one and use the “Plain language” switch at the top of its page.
This is a load-bearing map, not an encyclopedia. A few foundation claims sit at the bottom and everything above hangs from them by a visible line. The shape follows Wesley's way of salvation and lets one locus lead into the next in the spirit of Hodgson and King. Select any node to begin, or switch to Ask to question the corpus. Every answer is grounded in his own pages and quotes.
Answers draw on the full text of everything: his sermons, Pastor's Notes, Bible studies, academic and ordination papers, and the practical church-resource documents his church runs on. Ask a doctrine question or a "how do we run this" question and it answers with the full context, naming its sources. If nothing covers your question, it says so rather than guess.