Cornerstone Curriculum, Official Certification Edition

LESSON 3 | FOCUS ON REPRODUCTION: CHURCH GROWTH / 425

3. Form cell groups, Bible studies, etc. to follow up new believers, to continue evangelism, and to identify and train emerging leaders.

4. Announce the birth of a new church to the neighborhood and meet regularly for public worship, instruction and fellowship.

D. Stage Four: Nurture – through small groups and individual discipleship, strengthen the disciples of Jesus in the basics of the Christian life, Christian community, and church growth .

1. Key texts

a. 1 Thess. 2.5-9

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b. 1 Cor. 4.14-15

2. Basic principle: through small groups and individual friendships, corporate worship, and solid teaching and fellowship, new believers are nurtured and equipped to live as disciples of Jesus in the body of Christ.

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3. Develop individual and group discipleship.

4. Fill key roles in the church: identify and use spiritual gifts.

III. Empower: Commission Leaders for the Church and Train Them to Reproduce. Acts 20.28 – Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.