Focus on Reproduction, Mentor's Guide, MG12

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

B. Key Scriptures:

1. Pours out their life as one who is charged to guard, protect, and feed the flock of God, ensuring its growth, nurture, and blessing, Acts 20.28; 1 Pet. 5.1-4; John 21.15-17

2. Equips the members of the body in such a way that each member is empowered to share the good news of the Kingdom in their own oikos context, Eph. 4.9-15

C. Critical concept: for the growth of the Church

1. God’s leader uses all of his or her resources to equip and empower the body of Christ for her goal and task.

2. God’s leader seeks to empower the members of the body in order that they may fulfill their calling together as a body.

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a. As a community called to display God’s excellencies, 1 Pet. 2.9

b. As a temple called to be a holy temple for God’s presence, Eph. 2.19ff

c. As a body that works to demonstrate God’s acts in the world, Rom. 12.4-8

d. As a family that reveals the very life and love of the God who called them into existence, 1 John 3.1-2; John 1.12-13