Focus on Reproduction, Mentor's Guide, MG12

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2. Primary misconceptions about being a model:

a. While those who are trained by us will be like us (cf. Luke 6.40), the goal is to conform people to the image of Christ, not our own! Becoming like you as the goal, Rom. 8.29

b. Inability to allow for difference among people (i.e., adopting a “cookie cutter mentality” of disciple-making)

c. You cannot personally reproduce yourself in another (i.e., only Jesus makes disciples, technically).

(1) John 15.4-5

(2) 1 Cor. 3.7

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3. Christlikeness is the goal of the Christian life.

a. 1 Cor. 15.49

b. Gal. 4.19

c. Phil. 2.5

d. 1 John 3.1-3

4. “Imitation of Christ” - is this good, bad, or ugly?