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THEORY OF CHURCH GROWTH (제26강) ✝️✝️✝️ (영문)
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2020-06-27 17:19:34, 조회 : 1,524 |
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THEORY OF CHURCH GROWTH (제26강) ✝️✝️✝️ (영문)
Discipling the Laity for Disciple Making (4)
42) One disciple must have the responsibility to make his disciple for the purpose of multiplication of the church membership.
(43) The production of multiplying disciples is the only way to effectively fulfill the Great Commission, and multiplying disciples are best produced through discipleship training (Kuhne 1978, 16).
(44) Gary W. Kuhne has classified the multiplication into four phases in order:
1) evangelism,
2) personal follow-up,
3) discipling the new Christian, and
4) producing other disciples (Kuhne 1978, 17-18).
(45) Through these phases he has suggested drawing up a six-year multiplication plan step by step (Kuhne 1978, 18-19).
(46) The writer would like to suggest that the goals for the growth of church may be set in three areas: church membership, spiritual maturity, and financial increase.
1) The first area: membership multiplication, can be achieved through multiplying disciples by making disciples.
In the first step, discipler (pastor) can make one disciple or more. If a pastor can make, for example, five disciples in the first generation, the five will be multiplied into ten in the second generation, and the ten into twenty in the third generation.
In this case \\"the pastor\\" is the first generation, \\"the pastor's disciples\\" are the second generation, and the pastor's disciples' disciples are the third generation (Hadidian 1979, 38).
This pattern has been found in the Scripture Tim. 2:2, as a pattern: Paul-Timothy-faithful men-others.
Other examples have been shown in the principles of the Bible: Paul, Silvanus and Timothy-the Thessalonians-believers in Macedonia and Achaia, and Jesus-disciples-Philip-Ethiopian eunuch-African (Hadidian 1979, 38-40).
2) The second area, spiritual maturity, can be attained through teaching and training. This can be attained through the Bible study (2 Tim. 3:14-17) and spiritual exercises such as prayer and praise to God (Luke 22:32, 40; Act. 8:22; Ps. 33:1).
R. C. Sproul has written:
Prayer is the secret of holiness, if holiness, indeed, has anything secretive about it. If we examine the lives of the great saints of the church, we found that they were great people of prayer...The neglect of prayer is a major cause of stagnation in the Christian life. (Sproul 1986, 21, 22)
Roger A. Swenson suggests a priority of prayer:
To be sure, prayer must precede any attempt to rebuild trust, but we must be prudent in our objectives. There is nothing wrong in asking God to open the heart of another, to make him more understanding, to lead him to tolerance. (Swenson 1991, 165)
3) The third area, financial increase, can be attained through the membership increase and maturity.
① First of all, the finances cannot help but increase when the membership increases and matures.
② The more membership increases, the more the finances increase. It is a matter of common knowledge.
③ Furthermore, maturity of the members accelerates the financial increase.
The Christian in maturity, therefore, should be conscious of his giving relationship because that is the responsibility of the man who is \\"born again,\\" in whom the Spirit moves and has full course (Ward 1958, 9).
(47) Basically the man who is born again recognizes that human possessions belong to God, not himself (Kim 1985, 61).
(48) Accordingly, giving can be used to enhance relationships with God and bless humankind. The grace of giving is often a tremendous stimulant to the life of faith (Forster 1985, 42). ⛪️⛪️⛪️
- To be continued
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