Focus on Reproduction, Mentor's Guide, MG12

/ 1 1 1

F O C U S O N R E P R O D U C T I O N

2. Need to reorient their lives around their new identity in Christ: new converts require a sense of belonging and security, 2 Cor. 6.14-18.

3. Need for ongoing instruction, nurture, and feeding: new converts need to understand God’s Word and will, 1 Pet. 2.2; Heb. 5.11-6.4.

4. Need for friends and cultivating new life patterns based on a kingdom perspective: new converts need friends to encourage holy living, John 13.34-35.

5. Need for regular, parental and pastoral care: new converts need godly pastors to keep watch over their souls, Heb. 13.17.

C. Dynamics of Follow-up

3

1. Assembling the believers into a distinct community of faith, Acts 2.42-47

2. Immediate, consistent contact after decision, 1 Thess. 3.1-6

3. Baptism and incorporation within a local assembly of believers, Heb. 10.24-25

a. Baptism in obedience to the command of Christ, Matt. 28.19; Mark 16.15

b. Befriending in the body: forming new relationships with the believers, Gal. 6.2