Focus on Reproduction, Mentor's Guide, MG12

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5. Excellence derived from continuous application (faithfulness): The primary standard for stewarding God’s mysteries, 1 Cor. 4.1-2

C. The responsibility to Befriend (how the discipler relates)

1. “Yoke fellow,” Phil. 4.3 - the discipler as fellow stranger and alien

2. Primary misconceptions:

a. True friends do not confront, they only strive to understand, seeking to be indirect in their exhortation.

b. Friends do not interfere with the personal affairs of another.

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c. Friendship precludes admonition and accountability.

3. Becoming a brother or sister, John 1.12-13

a. Mutuality as the goal of all discipleship, i.e., “ love one another ,” John 13.34-35

b. Soul friendship : walking together in mutual agreement and desire, Amos 3.3

c. Both giving and receiving : the reciprocation in all healthy discipling relationships, Rom. 1.11-12