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Imagine you're sitting at home, watching a football game and you desperately wanting your team

to score the final point to win the game. The coach calls a time out and has all of his players to

run in to go over the final plan to get that winning goal. The team runs back out on the field and

the ref blows the whistle to begin, the players get into formation and run the game plan. As

everyone at home is sitting on the edge of their seats, waiting to see the final score suddenly you

hear it, “touch down”! Everyone in the room jumps up and down as their team did it, they won

the game! But how did they get here? How did they win this game? The team has spent weeks,

even months preparing and setting up their game plan for the season. Examining their strengths

discission. As we are beginning the process of spiritual formation where our thoughts, mindset,

relationships, and every detail about our former self will change to become more like Jesus. But

our journey does not end there as we are called by God in Matthew 28:19-20, “Therefore go and

make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the

Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely, I am with

you always, to the very end of the age.” This is not only the calling of each disciple but of the

body of Christ, otherwise the church as a whole. This can be tricky sometimes with bringing

together different individuals with different spiritual gifts. But there is a way to properly train

disciples and create spiritual leaders out of the group. By going through proper discipleship

training, we can successfully teach, train, and make more disciples as we strive to strengthen the

body of Christ. This paper will demonstrate the passages, principles, philosophy, practices, and

commanded you. And surely, I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” This sets the

base line of what is called of us as disciples, who is our target audience is and our vision for our

mission. Dempsey explains by following the Great Commision given in Matthew 28:19-20,

who transform more into Jesus Christ through our actions, words, relationship, and our entire

outlook for our personal life and of those around us. Secondly, our audience, as churches

continue to be built around the world, we must go out to make more disciples of non-believers

and to come together as one body, the body of Christ in our discipleship. Lastly, our vision, Jesus

worked throughout His entire earthly ministry to show His love and compassion as He shared the

Gospel with others so they would come to know Him and follow Him in His ministry. These

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three areas are what sets our base line, it sets the tone for each believer as they chose to take the

first step in becoming a believer.

If we try to begin this plan without a vision in place first, then there can be no successful

outcome. As Proverbs 29:18 explains, “Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but

blessed is the one who heeds wisdom’s instruction.” This can be seen as a warning for the body

of Christ, that if we do not have a focused plan with a vison set first, there can be no successful

ending. That everyone will try to lead in their own way or go out on their own terms to try to

create something that has already be laid out in front of us by Jesus Himself. To come together in

worship and in love to honor and serve God, non-believers, and believers a like to become one

anxiety, depression, and other forms of mental health. Since we have all been down what seems

to be a never-ending battle with what has happened to us, it tends to take some time before a

newcomer gets the courage to step forward. However, in our group we try to meet once a week

for coffee to discuss life, spend time in prayer and to encourage one another in God’s love and

forgiveness His has for us. This is an important aspect of teaching a group as Dunlow explains an

“important understanding of the diverse context and to have perceptual attentiveness through

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listening, seeing clearly, acting differently, and staying faithful”.3 So, despite any difference

between us, I invite everyone within the group, which is about five of us at the moment to bring

a bible verse that they feel has encouraged them this week as we sit together to discuss each

praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows

it very well.” Although these two scriptural references may not be the first that come to mind

when imaging the love that God has given us to give to one another and ourselves, these two

us and as we come together in one body and that all of God’s children are made with the love of

God. Reminding us that we all have our difference, and we all walk different paths, but it is

through His love He gave to us that our difference does not mean a thing because together and

individually we are all made in His image.

The idea of focusing on our differences is something we try to avoid as much as possible. As

many times children, young adults and even adults are constantly comparing themselves to

others and might receive some negative energy from those who choose to pick on how we are

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different. But we strive to put our difference aside and solely focus on the fact that God took the

time to create mankind separate from any other creation and because He loved us so much, He

wanted us to be like Him so we might have a close relationship with Him. Dempsey describes

to separate us, it is only the devil trying to work his way into separating the body of Christ.

within the Bible. This is why it is the up most importance for the message of the church to be

correctly given out by the leaders of the church, so there is no misconception given. Putman

describes this as the vision for the church, describing it as “not just something you throw on your

building maintenance or in my previous church the many conflicts between different clicks. By

making sure the church has a clear philosophy, the church will help eliminate any confusion or

misunderstanding within the ministry of the church.

With beginning my small group, we made sure to have one meeting in the very beginning of

what our philosophy for this small group would be and how it fit in with the ministry of the

church and God’s will. After the initial meeting, every meeting after that we always being our

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meeting with going over our initial philosophy and mission of our small group. According to

Rose small groups are successful when they “position themselves for success when goals and

objectives are identified and clarified, and bold faith follows the plan.”6 In other words, small

groups or in the entire church, Romans 12:4-5 explains defines the relationship within the church

successfully.

take action on their values and philosophy will decided the manner the church chooses to operate

its ministry. Malphurs explains, “If followers are to make an unwavering commitment to Christ,

leaders who profess to be committed Christ-followers must lead the way to committed

discipleship.7 There are four major models for which a church can put their ministry into play

including the transitional church, the attractional church, the organic church, and the hybrid

church. The first, the transitional church, which typically takes place in a small town where there

are few small groups within the church and the church’s ministries are on the smaller spectrum.

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The second is the attractional church, better known as the come and see church, uses a lot of

small groups are their center piece of the church for those outside of the church can come see

how God is working within their church. The third is the organic church, this church model uses

would be that of the traditional church model. We are a small family oriented known church and

we typically do not get a lot of new members within the church. Although participating in things

such as Sunday school and Wednesday night school has always been a must in our church, we

year while we were not able to gather together in worship and prayer, I was afraid this would

make the need for discipleship and would keep members away from worship. For the first few

months of this pandemic, there was hardly any time we would spend together because many of

us were scared to even leave our homes. Especially since this is a much older church where most

of our congregation is made up of senior citizens, many of which did not know how to use

certain media. However, our new pastor decided to try everything he could to reach more people

of the church by using Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, text messages and phone calls to keep

everyone on track of worshiping together and striving to keep us on track of our mission. I have