Cornerstone Curriculum, Official Certification Edition - Mentor's Guide

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Prov. 13.17 – A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing. Mal. 2.7 – For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. John 20.21 – Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” Luke 10.16 – 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. Acts 26.17-18 – delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles – to whom I am sending you [18] to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me. 2 Cor. 3.6 – who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. Eph. 6.20 – for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak. Enabling your students to see that they, in fact, represent the risen and exalted Lord Jesus in their leadership is one of the critical empowering elements of this lesson. What they are engaged in is not merely good efforts or care; they stand in the place of and for the glory of the Lord Jesus, and he himself will reward their faithful obedience in serving the needs of his people. This corresponds directly to the way in which our Lord obeyed the Father, and therefore God highly exalted him (Phil. 2.5-11). In the same way, we honor Christ, and so he will honor us (John 12.24-25). This was applied as well to receiving the apostles’ words as Christ’s own instruction (cf. 1 Thess. 4.8 – Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.)

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