Evangelism and Spiritual Warfare, Mentor's Guide, MG08

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E V A N G E L I S M A N D S P I R I T U A L W A R F A R E

Follow-Up and Incorporation

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Welcome, in the strong name of Jesus Christ! After your reading, study, discussion, and application of the materials in this lesson, you will be able to: • Defend the idea that the key to successful evangelism is following up new Christians by incorporating them into a local assembly of believers as quickly as possible. • Provide a biblical definition of follow-up and incorporation of new believers in the Church as “incorporating new converts into the family of God so they can be equipped to grow in Christ and use their gifts for ministry.” • Recite the reasons for follow-up: follow-up of new believers is critical because new Christians are vulnerable to attack from the enemy, they need to be reoriented to their new faith in Christ, and they need immediate parental care as little newborns in Christ. • Give the five biblical methods of apostolic follow-up: prevailing prayer, immediate personal contact with the new believers, sending representatives for encouragement and challenge, regular personal correspondence, and appointing leaders over them.

Lesson Objectives

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• Lay out the biblical rationale for baptism and membership with a local body as a means of publicly testifying of their new-found faith.

Raising Your Children in the Lord

Devotion

1 Thess. 2.7-12 - But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children. [8] So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us. [9] For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. [10] You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers. [11] For you know how, like a father with his children, [12] we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

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