To grow like Christ is to grow in love and a desire to serve and minister to others. We are using the word ‘training’ to describe the growth of all Christians in conviction, character and competency, so that in love they might minister to others by prayerfully bringing the word of God to them—whether to non-Christians in outreach, new Christians in follow-up, or all other Christians in daily growth. If every Christian is a potential vine-worker (see chapter 4), then ‘training’ is that stage of Christian growth in which people are equipped and mobilized and resourced and encouraged to do that
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