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Version Jan 3 2012. House Churches which Multiply. Disciples making disciples ... new churches starting new churches… f or new chains of churches… Sustainable Church Multiplication. Workshop Level 1 . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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House Churches
which Multiply
• Disciples making disciples...
• new churches starting new churches…
• for new chains of churches…
• Sustainable Church Multiplication
RPT Workshop Level One PowerPoint 1-1-2012 = WITH WORDs & info version for ENG context = A.pptx
Workshop Level 1
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Workshop Concepts Introduction1. Pray out more workers. 2. SHARE authority with your apprentices.3. Commission new workers & send them in teams.4. Provide clear instructions to apprentice workers.5. Keep instructions SIMPLE6. Worship7. Have workers start flocks (in houses of worthy persons)
so as to reach whole families.8. Encourage workers to bond with the people & adopt
their customs.9. Expect Persecution 10. Proclaim the original Good News.11. Permit God’s miracles as others report activities and
results.12. Listen to workers.
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• Introduction
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• Introduction Answer this question: “What makes a church?”
• Matthew 16:16-20. • Matthew 18:18-20. • Matthew 28:18-20.
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• Introduction Answer this question: “What makes a church?”
Matthew 16:16-20. Authority to bind and to loosen.Matthew 18:18-20. Real Presence of Christ in congregations of any size.
Matthew 28:18-20. Teaching to obey all of Jesus commandments.
Jesus is the One who builds His church.Jesus gives authority to bind and to loose.Jesus promises to answer prayer.Jesus is in the midst of those who gather in His name.Jesus commanded us to make disciples who obey his commands. Application….Flocks come in all sizes. Cell groups can be little flocks within big congregations. Cells and congregations can all obey the commands of Jesus, doing all that the NT expects of them.
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• Introduction
• Have each group’s members pray together to bind themselves together as a flock and to invite Jesus to be in their midst.
• Have each group’s members choose one of them to serve as its shepherd. After one minute, pray for those elders to have grace and gifts from Jesus to serve their flocks.
• Show these shepherds a simple way to serve communion and let them serve their flocks.
• Discuss how were the things you just did commanded by Jesus, easy to do and imitable?
• An easy way to serve the Lord’s Table (If denominational leaders allow)• If you do not serve communion during the opening session, then do it
later to illustrate obedience to Jesus, or how to train novice leaders, or • Invite the flock shepherds come near to you so you can instruct them.
Have the flocks prepare themselves for communion. Invite them to listen to your instructions to their shepherds.
Form groups into little flocks
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#1 Praying
&
Looking
• Pray out more workers. (1)
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• Pray out more workers. (1)
Jesus said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."
Mt 9:37-38; Lk 10:2
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• Pray out more workers. (1)
Ask & Discuss:What kinds of workers to train and send?
Q
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• Pray out more workers. (1)
Ephesians 4:7-13 But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. This is why it[a] says:
“When he ascended on high, he led captives in his train and gave gifts to men.”[b]
(What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions[c]? He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.)
It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
A
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• Pray out more workers. (1)
Group Bible discovery
What did Jesus do when training new
workers? • Mark 3:14-15. • Mark 6:6-13. • Mark 6:30.
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• Pray out more workers. (1)
• Mark 3:14-15. They be with him and he send them out.• Mark 6:6-13. He gave them instructions and sent them out.• Mark 6:30. They returned and reported to him.
Jesus had His trainees accompany Him. He gave them power over demons. He equipped them to proclaim God’s Word. He listened to their reports. He did not simply teach them theory for some future work.
Also : Jesus modelled pastoral skills in a way that His disciples could easily imitate, Jesus trained only a few, so that He had time to deal personally with all of them in
a loving way, Jesus made plans with them, to keep them focused on what they would do with
the people, Jesus aimed at social networks instead of individuals when he evangelised Jesus gave specific commands for His disciples to obey. Jesus helped them to exercise basic ministry skill.
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• Pray out more workers. (1)
- Chains of churches -
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• Pray out more workers. (1)
Antioch, Ephesus,
Colosse Laodicia….
Hieropolis
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• Pray out more workers. (1)
Group Bible discovery
What did the apostles do to train
new workers?
• 2 Timothy 2:2. • Colossians 1:7-8.• Colossians 4:12-17.
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• Pray out more workers. (1)
Group Bible discovery
What did the apostles do to train new workers?
• 2 Timothy 2:2. Training ‘chains’.• Colossians 1:7-8. Epaphras.• Colossians 4:12-17. Nympha.
Apostles and shepherds trained new workers on the job.Apostles and shepherds maintained chains of trainers who trained others in turn.
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• Pray out more workers. (1)
Group Bible discovery
• 1 Timothy 1:3-4. • 1 Timothy 5:21-22.
• Titus 1:4-5.
What is a “Training Coordinator”?&
What is the role of training coordinators?
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• Pray out more workers. (1)
Group Bible discovery
What is the role of training coordinators?• 1 Timothy 1:3-4. Exhort, warn, train.• 1 Timothy 5:21-22. Keep the rules without partiality.• Titus 1:4-5. Put churches in order, appoint elders.
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• Pray out more workers. (1) Also…
Coordinators ensure that new leaders get appointed in new flocks. Coordinators provide for the training and instruction of novice leaders. Coordinators seek to get churches planted in every town. Coordinators set up TEEE (theological education and evangelism by extension)
programmes. Coordinators train trainers provide materials and oversee record-keeping. Coordinators inform congregations about neglected communities so that they
can pray. Coordinators discern when the work is completed in a region (Romans 15:18-
21).
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• Pray out more workers. (1)
Question:
Can someone summarize this concept (regarding praying & looking for new
workers)?
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• Pray out more workers. (1)
Work group tasks• Draw a map or your work area, showing
the existing flocks and cells that could send workers to start new cell groups and congregations.
• Name coordinators for each region in which you work and plan to work, who will start or strengthen an extension Bible school.
• Pray together, asking God to thrust more workers into the harvest.
• Ask the Holy Spirit to empower your current workers to train many novice shepherds for new flocks.
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Tea & Coffee
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#1 Share
Authority
• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)
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• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)
Jesus called to him his twelve disciples and gave them power and authority over the unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to cure diseases and to heal every affliction. After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others … and said to them, “Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.”
Mt 10:1; Mk 6:7; Lk 9:1; Lk 10:1, 19
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• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)
Skit: “Sheep and Wolves”
Ask:• “Which is more valuable, sheep or humans?” (Matthew 12:12: How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! )• “What number of sheep is an unacceptable loss?” • “What do wise pastors do when their flock grows big?”
• Matthew 7:15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
• Matthew 10:16: I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
• Luke 10: Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.• Acts 20:29: I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among
you and will not spare the flock.
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Group Bible discovery
• 1 Timothy 3:1-7. • Titus 1:5-9.
What kind of persons should be trained as shepherds?
• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)
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• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)
The KEY: enrol individuals who meet biblical requirements of shepherds as listed in Titus 1:5 9 and 1 Timothy 3:1-7.‑
Other suggestions:• Trainers should not enrol as many as possible simply to have bigger training
classes. Teachers of big groups usually fail to prepare leaders who shepherd others, and their teaching sessions become a mere exercise for passive students.
• Trainers should enrol only leaders, and potential leaders, who will begin at once to shepherd others. Enrolling students who are not leaders loses the discipline of shepherd-level training.
• Novice trainees should begin at once to shepherd their own families and any friends who join their new congregation or cell.
• It is awkward for a shepherd to teach believers what they have also already learned along with him in a training program that enrols everybody in his congregation.
• When commissioning apostles and shepherds, do not impose man made requirements that are not biblical. Such traditions remain one of the biggest hindrances to flock and leader reproduction.
Skit: “Jesus the Rock”
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• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)
Skit: “Jesus the Rock”Ask:• Who is the “rock” & what do we learn for application?
Remember…• Both builders listened to Jesus’ words, but only one
obeyed. (“Both kinds attend this workshop!”)• Jesus was explaining the foundation of our lives and
ministries. This foundation is not simply a doctrine; for it requires us to have a loving relationship with Jesus and to obey His commands.
• Jesus said, ‘If you love me, obey my commands.’ (John 14:15).
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• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)
Matthew 28:18-20Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in
heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[
a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I
have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
• “What was the risen Christ’s final command?” [Answer: To make disciples of all nations.]
• “How should Christians make disciples, according to Jesus’ teaching?” [Answer: We are to baptise them and teach them to obey Jesus’ commands.]
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Group Bible discovery
Acts 2:37-47
In what ways did the early church obey Jesus’ commands?
• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)
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• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)
ACTS 2:37 “When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” 38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.” 40 With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” 41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day. The Fellowship of the Believers 42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.”
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• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)
ACTS 2:37 “When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” 38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.” 40 With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” 41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day. 42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.”
Repentance; Baptism; Love; Giving; Prayer; Lord’s Supper; Evangelism and Edification
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• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)
Ask: What did the 3,000 new believers start doing right away?
• It was these commands that the 3,000 new believers in the first church began obeying at once.
• These are Jesus’ main commands, upon which all other New Testament commands and ministries are based.
• In Islamic regions, the list can be shorted to six by combining the first two. In Buddhist regions, the list can be increased to eight by separating love for God and love for others.
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Question:
Can someone summarize this concept (regarding SHARING your authority with
your new workers)?
• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)
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• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)
Group work tasks• Identify which of the commands of Jesus
need attention in your churches & cells?• Make plans to authorize workers and
flocks to perform the commands of Jesus.
• Write on your maps the name of workers whom you would like to enrol as trainees.
• Pray for one another that the Lord Jesus will call many folks to faith and all you all to make disciples of them.
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• Commission new workers & send them in teams. (3)
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Tea & Coffee
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• Instruct Workers. Provide clear instructions to apprentice workers. (4)
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• Instruct Workers. Provide clear instructions to apprentice workers. (4)
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• Instruct Workers. Provide clear instructions to apprentice workers. (4)
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• Instruct Workers. Provide clear instructions to apprentice workers. (4)
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• Instruct Workers. Provide clear instructions to apprentice workers. (4)
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• Instruct Workers. Provide clear instructions to apprentice workers. (4)
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• Instruct Workers. Provide clear instructions to apprentice workers. (4)
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• Instruct Workers. Provide clear instructions to apprentice workers. (4)
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Keep instructions SIMPLE (5)
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Keep instructions SIMPLE (5)
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Keep instructions SIMPLE (5)
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Tea & Coffee
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Worship (6)
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Worship (6)
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Worship (6)
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Have workers start flocks (7)
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Have workers start flocks (7)
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Encourage workers to bond with the people & adopt their customs. (8)
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Encourage workers to bond with the people & adopt their customs. (8)
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Encourage workers to bond with the people & adopt their customs. (8)
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#9Expecti
ng Persecution
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Expecting Persecution (9)
Jesus said, “Wherever anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town…. go into its streets and say, 'Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this: the kingdom of God has come near.' When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes. The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me."
Mt 10:14, 23; Mk 6:11; Lk 9:5; Lk 10:10-11,16.
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Expecting Persecution (9)
Group Bible discovery
What skills did Aquila and Priscilla have that enabled them to train
leaders in a hostile field?
• Acts 18:1-4. • Acts 18:24-28.
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Expecting Persecution (9)
We learn: • Aquila and Priscilla combined business with the Lord’s
work. They did not earn their living by being missionaries.
• Aquila and Priscilla supported themselves, in their case with a small business, instead of working only as church planters. So doing diverts suspicion by hostile authorities.
• Aquila and Priscilla mentored (coached) Apollos quietly in the background. That is how you, too, must train new leaders where authorities are hostile.
Applications?
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Expecting Persecution (9)
We also learn….• Wise ‘tentmakers’ work at a job that allows them to
mix freely with the working class, among whom it is normally easier to reproduce churches.
• Fields with hostile authorities require church-planters to serve as bi-vocational workers.
• Pricilla, a woman, taught a man, Apollos, in a quiet way, with her husband’s approval.
• Wise mentors will try to train more than one worker at a time when possible.
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Expecting Persecution (9)
Question:
How to avoid hostile authorities?Move operations to another town or to another social
class in the same town.Send in workers who are culturally more similar to the
local people.Meet in homes and other non-public places instead of
in religious buildings.Train workers quietly, a few at a time, instead of in big
classrooms.Send only self-supported workers who are not known to be gospel workers.
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Expecting Persecution (9)
Adopt more local cultural forms, including local religious forms.
Learn what local people need to know and teach them what the Bible says about it.
Let local folks be the real leaders from the start and you serve as a trainer in the background.
Teach local believes how to respond to persecution and trust the Holy Spirit.
Demonstrate persevering prayer.
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Proclaim the original Good News. (10)
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Proclaim the original Good News. (10)
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#11 LOVE in
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Concept: LOVE in ACTION (11)
“Jesus’ disciples cast out many demons and anointed with oil many
who were sick and healed them. “
Mark 6:13; Lk 9:6
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Concept: LOVE in ACTION (11)
• Romans 12:4-10• 1 Corinthians
12:7-11• 1 Peter 4:10-11.
Group Bible discovery
What kinds of gifts does the Spirit give to believers?
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Speaking gifts for sharing truth.
Serving gifts for helping the needy.
Teaching Exhorting Wisdom Knowledge Tongues Interpretation
Giving Leading Mercy Faith Healing Miracles
Unity of His body, in service.
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Ephesians 4:11-12
5 kinds of workers that God gives to flocks. Have someone read
• Apostles, those who are sent to start new flocks.• Prophets, those who speak to strengthen
believers.• Evangelists, those who take the Good News to
unbelievers.• Shepherds, those who take care of flocks.• Teachers, those who help believers to obey
Jesus.
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Concept: LOVE in ACTION (11)
Group work tasks• Assess the unmet survival needs of your
population.• Which of those needs can be met by integrating
development work with starting flocks?• Identify gifted and trained individuals who can
implement such development work.• Pray and ask God to raise up workers who have
both speaking and service gifts.• Pray and ask God to make signs and wonders part
of your workers’ evangelism.
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#12 Listen, as you TRAIN
the disciple
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Listen to workers. (12)
The twelve apostles returned to Jesus and told him all that they had done and taught. And he said to them, "Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while." … And Jesus took them, and they went away in the boat … to a desolate place by themselves. The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!"
And Jesus said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.”
Mk 6:30-32; Luke 9:10 and 10:17-18
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Listen to workers. (12)
Group Bible discovery:
What did Jesus’ trainees do after they went out to preach?
• Mark 6:30-32. • Luke 9:10. • Luke 10:17-20.
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Listen to workers. (12)
Group Bible discovery:
What are some congregational ministries required by the NT?
• Luke 10:25-27. • Acts 20:28-32. • Ephesians 4:11-16.
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Listen to workers. (12)
Group work tasks Discuss some current learning needs of your
shepherds and apostles? Identify which ministries required by the NT need
attention in your trainees’ congregations. Plan a series of conferences and training
seminars. How often will you hold those? Once a year?
Twice? Thrice? Pray for your trainees to learn to listen and plan
with their trainees.
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