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C. What is the nature of discipling in the church?

1. Personal example and pace-setting

2. Intercession and prevailing prayer

3. Personal contact and association (“to be with him”), Mark 3.14

4. Personal representatives

5. Personal correspondence (the Epistles)

6. Personal delegation and oversight of ministry

III. The Role of the Discipler: Model, Mentor, and Friend

A. The responsibility to be a Model (who the discipler is)

1. “Typos” – type, pattern, example

a. John 15.8

b. John 13.34-35

c. Luke 14.26-27

d. Luke 14.33

e. Luke 9.23

f. John 12.24-25

g. John 8.31-32

h. John 15.12

i. 1 Timothy 4.9-16

Context Values/Vision

j. Matthew 28.19-20

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