Becoming Like Your Teacher, Second Edition

48 • B ecoming L ike Y our T eacher

E. Co-labor in movement representation as colleagues and comrades together.

F. Give the apprentice solo assignments, with you only accompanying as support.

G. Assign the apprentice formal leadership status, i.e., to take on their own apprenticeships as agent of the movement.

III. The Principle of Apprenticeship: Leadership as Representation ( The Role of Fomal Proxy: Leadership as Representation )

A. Apostles, evangelists, prophets, and ambassadors: representatives of another

B. Jesus as the perfect pattern of the representative of God

C. The dynamics of representation

1. The Commissioning : formal selection and call

2. The Equipping : appropriate training and investment

3. The Entrustment : endowed with the authority and power to act on behalf of the movement

4. The Mission : faithful execution of the task

5. The Reckoning : assessment and evaluation of the results attained