Focus on Reproduction, Mentor's Guide, MG12

/ 1 3

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

Church Growth Reproducing in Number and Quality

page 303 1

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 single most critical concept in understanding evangelism, discipleship, and church planting is the lordship of Jesus Christ. • Show biblically how Jesus as the risen Lord and God’s Anointed Messiah has been exalted to the position of head over all things to the Church and Lord of the harvest. • Recite Scripture that supports that Jesus himself serves as the ground of all missionizing activity, who alone is the Lord who calls his servants to the field and empowers them with his Spirit, determining where he will send them. • Explain how Jesus as Lord determines what his servants must endure for his name’s sake, and how Jesus promises to stand with them to the end of their task. • Affirm how in all mission, teaching, preaching, and outreach, we must appeal to our Lord Jesus, for he alone enables us to win souls and plant churches in the city. • Demonstrate from the Bible the way in which radical discipleship is produced and authenticated in Christian community. • Articulate the three integrated steps of urban church planting: evangelizing the lost, equipping the new disciples to live the Christian life in the context of Christian community – the Church, and empowering the leaders and the community to reproduce itself and associate with other like-minded churches. • Highlight the ten critical principles drawn from a church planting model fromActs, and apply them to your own church planting efforts in the city.

Lesson Objectives

page 304 2

1