Copyright © 2009 by Galen Currah, Edward Aw and George Patterson.
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Introduction
Letter to the Colossians chapters 1 and 4 name several individuals who formed a kind of training chain. Paul took care not to by-pass links in the chain, respecting each one’s working relations, calling them his “co-workers”.
These individuals included:
Paul –> Timothy –> Epaphras –> Archippus –> Nympha
One immediately recalls the oft-cited text of 2 Timothy 2:2. See MentorNet #67, “The Fourth Generation”. In this article, a “training chain” consists of more-experienced church leaders who serve as mentor to a few less-experienced ones, in periodic, face-to-face sessions that include prayer, reporting, planning, learning assignments, review, and skill practice.


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