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F. Equip members to begin to pray and serve members within their oikos .

G. Encourage your people to give not only money, but to tithe and offer resources and skills on behalf of the needy.

H. Commission workers and laborers in the context of their own lives and vocations (e.g., collegians, homemakers, office workers, contractors, etc.).

IV. The Last Word

The more often we are mown down by you, the more in number we grow. The blood of Christians is seed. . . . For who that contemplates it, is not excited to inquire what is at the bottom of it? Who, after inquiry, does not embrace our doctrines? ~ Tertullian. c. 197. Ibid . 139. Could it have come to pass without divine assistance that Jesus . . . could have been so successful that everywhere throughout the world, many persons – Greeks as well as barbarians, educated as well as ignorant – adopted His doctrine? In fact, they have even met death in its defense, rather than to deny it. No one has ever related the same thing to have been done for any other movement.

~ Origen. c. 248. Ibid .

A. Start small and simply, but start.

B. Make your life and pilgrimage together the center of your confession, worship, spirituality, and service.

C. Equip candidates for baptism and new converts in the Story of God, summarized in the Rule of Faith embodied in the Nicene Creed.