Mentoring and discipleship
| When: | Back to Calendar » October 26, 2011 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | |
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| Repeats: | Wednesdays, until December 21, 2011 | |
| Where: | Ask during sunday service Franklin ACT 2913 Australia |
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| Contact: | Caxton facebook.com/CommunityChapelConn caxtonmk@yahoo.com |
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| Tags: | Leadership | |
This is intended to develop your capacity to be a follower of Jesus and ability to help family friend and freinds. These sessions will allow you to have close fellowship with Rev Murungi, a man of God that has been used by God to start many successful Churches. Mentoring
"Mentoring is a relatively recent term especially in Christian circles, but what it describes has been the focus of Christian community since the early church. It is a dynamic relationship of trust in which one person enables another to maximise the grace of God in his/her life and service. It has a sound biblical a nd theological basis with Jesus as the ultimate model, retaining all that is consistent with his life and teaching."
Extract from "Mentoring to Develop Disciples and Leaders" by John Mallison
We are starting a mentors program at community Chapel. At community Chapel, we want to ‘Watch over one another in love’. We have identified this as key to helping the community retain their faith and the fire we are receiving from current revival meetings.
Mentoring will take form of class meetings and one-to-one meetings as much as possible, remembering that "Watching over one another" is the essence of mentoring.
In doing this Jesus is our prime model because we see Him interacting with his disciples. The New Testament is full of ‘one another’ and ‘together’ passages, pointing to Christianity as a relational lifestyle, about community, the power of togetherness.
School of Tyrannus approach
Ephesus is a city no more than abandoned ruins today. During the Roman era, Ephesus was one of the principle cities in the empire.
Ephesus features prominently in early Christianity, as Paul preached in Ephesus for at least two years:
"And it happened, while Apollos was at Corinth, that Paul, having passed through the upper regions, came to Ephesus… And he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading concerning the things of the kingdom of God. But when some were hardened and did not believe, but spoke evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and withdrew the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. And this continued for two years, so that all who dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks." (Acts 19:1, 8-10)
Toward the end of his ministry, Paul told the elders of Ephesus:
Toward the end of his ministry, Paul told the elders of Ephesus:
"You yourselves know that these hands have provided for my necessities, and for those who were with me."(Acts 20:34)
So Paul most likely worked his trade as a tentmaker in the mornings to provide for not only himself but also "those who were with" him (pastors take notice) in Ephesus, and then taught at Tyrannus’ school in the afternoons when it was empty as most of Ephesus slumbered in siesta.
Discipleship and mentoring sessions aims at achieving the school of Tyrannus outcomes as follows:
1) Training people of trade and profession to be effective followers of Jesus.
2) Impacting believers to be effective ministers of the Gospel.
3) Encouraging us to take out city for Christ and overrun Gods made by man. Goddess Artemis and Dianna must go!
4) Bring into the open the faith and freely confess what we believe in.
5) Impacting believers to be vessels to birth and sustain revival
