Ripe for Harvest

372 • R IPE FOR H ARVEST

D. P – Partnership : Your apprentice becomes a master, seeking to train her own apprentices.

1. The beauty of excellence

2. The power of multiplication

VIII. Handling the Rough Edges of a Discipling Relationship

A. The inevitability of rough edges

1. The occasional nature of the epistles

2. The diagnostic character of all discipling, 1 Thess. 5

3. The individual character of discipling

a. Discipling as parenting

b. Discipling as coaching

c. Discipling as friendship

B. “Whosoever will”: the limits of effective discipling in the church

1. What God has given to us

a. The Blood, 1 John 1.7

b. The Word, 2 Tim. 3.16-17

c. The Spirit, Eph. 1.13

d. The Cross, Rom. 6.1-6; Gal. 2.20

e. The Body, Rom. 12.4-8

f. The Gifts, 1 Cor. 12.12-27

Context Values/Vision

2. What the disciple must give

Prepare Launch Assemble Nurture Transition Schedule/Charter

a. Faithfulness, 1 Cor. 4.2; 2 Tim. 2.2