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THEORY OF CHURCH GROWTH (제25강) ✝️✝️✝️ (영문)
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2020-06-27 17:09:44, 조회 : 1,616 |
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THEORY OF CHURCH GROWTH (제25강) ✝️✝️✝️ (영문)
Discipling the Laity for Disciple Making (3)
(32) The direct examples are shown in the case of Jesus-twelve disciples, Paul-Timothy, and so on.
(33) How then did Jesus make his disciples?
1) First, He chose the candidates for his disciples out of the fishermen (Matt. 4:18-22) or the tax collectors (Matt. 9:9).
It is very significant that He chose the foolish, the weak, and the lowly of the world so that no one could boast before him (1 Cor. 1:27-29). Of course, none had been missed.
2) Second, He told them to \\"Follow me\\" (Matt. 9:9).
3) Third, He taught them about their lives and the kingdom of God living within them. Fourth, He trained them to work for the kingdom of God by walking with them.
4) Lastly, He commanded \\"Go and make disciples\\" (Matt. 28:19). His method of disciple making is crystal clear in these references (Arnold 1992, 15).
(34) To succeed in making disciples the pastor has to make an effective plan as the first stage of preparation.
(35) \\"An appropriate planning multiplies efficiency when the actual work begins\\" said C. Peter Wagner (Wagner 1990, 43).
(36) He said again, \\"If you fail to plan, you're planning to fail\\" (Wagner 1990, 43). Planning can be made through two ways according to the goal of church growth: short-range and long-range.
(37) One may be focused on individual growth and the future potentiality for church growth, the other on the leadership needs for church growth in the future (Huber 1975, 17).
(38) If the decision of an effective plan for church growth is made, the pastor should schedule to carry on the plan in order.
(39) The first stage is a \\"goal setting.\\"
1) If the pastor does not have any goals for church growth, he will be aiming at nothing.
2) If the goals are clear and if the pastor has agreed that evangelism needs to be geared toward making disciples, not just decisions, then the methods are almost up for grabs (Wagner 1977, 63).
(40) The pastor must note that he is identifying goals for the congregation first, and secondarily he is suggesting these as goals for the individual Christian (Evans 1977, 26).
(41) Only the goals in accordance with a vision can give the direction of the growth of the church. In the goal of church growth, two aspects must be considered
(1) The first goal of the discipling ministry is to make people disciples in which Christ is formed (Gal. 4:19; Col. 1:28) because one who has not been discipled cannot train people.
In Col. 1:28, Paul says, \\"We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.\\"
This is for the people of the church who are mature. It may be called \\"spiritual formation\\" (Clemmons and Hester 1974, 61). Gary W. Kuhne called this goal \\"life transference\\" (Kuhne 1978, 33).
(2) The second goal of discipling ministry is to multiply disciples for church growth. Who is to be a multiplier?
Of course, he is the only one that has been qualified as a disciple through the process of the first goal, \\"life transference\\" (2 Tim. 2:2).
What, then, is a multiplier? A multiplier is a person who is committed to the task of reproducing his life in someone else who in turn will reproduce himself in a third spiritual generation (Hadidian 1979, 37; Kuhne 1978, 16). ⛪️⛪️⛪️
- To be continued
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