I. The importance of nourishment:

The second step is the feeding, the nourishing, of the new ones. This is much harder than gaining the sinners. To bring forth a child is hard but not as hard as raising a child. Day and night the mother and father would sacrifice everything for that child. However, among the Christians, very few would do this work. Sometimes we brought someone to the Lord, but after two months they died prematurely because they received no care. The New Testament is full of this matter of feeding.

We must learn to feed, to nourish, the new ones whom we have brought to the Lord. They are just like newborn babes that need the feeding, the nourishing. In the Gospel of John, the Lord Jesus talked to Peter about the feeding of the small lambs (21:15). Most students and teachers of this Gospel concentrate their teaching and fellowship directly on the matter of life. However, after John seemed to conclude his Gospel in chapter twenty, he added one more chapter. In this additional chapter, the Lord checked with Peter: “Peter, do you love Me? If you say you love Me, you have to do one thing—feed My lambs.” All the mothers know that to feed or to nourish a little child is not a simple thing. When we look at the situation today, among the believers who are not pastors and preachers, who is doing this kind of feeding work? You cannot feed the lambs occasionally. You have to do it regularly, just like nourishing a little baby. You have to do it, not only daily, but many times a day and at certain times. Then the babe will be nourished; otherwise, it may die.

Therefore, we are not serving the Lord according to the Scriptures. Do you believe that the word of the Lord, “Feed My lambs,” is spoken only to Peter but not to you? I do not believe so. Peter stood there before the Lord representing all of us. Whatever the Lord spoke to him is the same to us. Therefore, we must learn and endeavor to get into the practice of feeding the lambs. Regardless of who we are, as long as we are a believer, we are charged by the Lord to feed His lambs. One day, we will all stand before the Lord at His judgment seat to give account of ourselves in this matter (Rom. 14:10, 12).( The Exercise and Practice of the God-Ordained Way，massage one，A Thorough View Of The God-Ordained Way—The Basic Principles)

II. The suggestions for shepherding materials:

A. The shepherding material 96 lessons:

1. This series of shepherding materials is aimed to help the saints to preach the gospel and practice the organic shepherding, based on all kinds of books published by Taiwan Gospel Bookroom, mainly from the messages of brother Watchman Nee and Witness Lee. There are six series including high gospel, after salvation, trust and obey, spirit and life, the knowing of the truth, and the church life. Every set has 16 lessons with the crucial Bible verses and the related hymns, easy for the saints to use, for the purpose of dispensing Christ and supplying life.

2. If every week you read one lesson with the new ones, you can cover 96 lessons within two years.

B. Home training with the nourishment for the new believers:

1. The graphic information list of the shepherding of the new ones.

2. The 12 lessons of nourishment for the new believers-the new edition of projection every week.

3. Establish a model of God’s ordained way-home training.

4. The instruction of the practice of the home meeting.

5. The fellowship concerning the opening class of home perfecting.

6. The key point for the master and the helper.

7. How to put the home training in a “profound”, “strong” and “practical” way.

C. The companion reading for the New Testament.

D. Bible Truth 365.

E. Ushering new ones to know the church:

1. Great mystery—Christ and Church.

2. God ‘s Economy.

3. Seven aspects of the church.

4. Seven stages of the church.

5. Ground of the church (&denomination).

6. What we are.

F. Presenting truth to seeking Christian groups, please refer to the overview of the whole Bible (from Genesis to Revelation):

1. Life.

2. Building.

3. Christ.

4. Eating.

5. Kennel of the Bible.

6. Tree of life.

G. Life Lessons.

H. Morning revival. (seen at addition 2: Morning revival with other).

I. Four lines about growing in the spiritual life.

1. Line of life: 《Life lessons》、《How to enjoy Spiritual food》、《The Knowledge of Life》、《The Experience of Life》、《The Experience and Growth in Life 》、《Dealing with Our Inward Parts for the Growth in life》、《Christ and His Crucifixion》、《Perfecting Training one-three》、《The Breaking of the Outer Man and the Release of the Spirit》、《The Path of Our Growth in Life 》、《The Way for a Christian to Mature in Life》、《The Mature Life》 ect.

2. Truth education line:《New Believer’s Lessons》《Crucial Truths in the Holy Scriptures》、《The Pattern of Healthy Word 》《Truth Lessons》、《God’s New Testament Economy 》、《Conclusion of the New Testament》、《The Collected Works of High Peak Truth》 ect.

3. The practice line:《How to Enjoy God and How to Practice the Enjoyment of God 》、《A Living of Mutual Abiding with the Lord in Spirit》、《Living with the Lord》、《Lessons on Prayer》、《Living In the Spirit》、《Unceasing pray》ect.

4. The service line:《The Basic Knowledge of Service》《Basic Lessons on Service》、《Serving Temple or Serving the Lord》《The Exercise and Practice of the God-Ordained Way》、《The Exercise and Practice of Vital Group》、《The Vital Groups》ect.

III. Nourishing way:

A. Face to face:

1. The unique need for practicing the God-ordained way—visiting people regularly。

2. Have a face -to- face morning revival with the chatting app. (for example Wechat, after adding a new friend, click +, choose the video chat, then the voice chat, after getting through, change to public subscription new believer’s nourishment, then enjoy the message.

3. How to organically shepherd the lamb.

B. Social media:

1. Wechat subscription: the nourishment for the new believers.

a. The nourishment column is for the morning enjoyment including audio file;

b. The video column is for the noon enjoyment.

c. Life testimony column is for the enjoyment before sleeping at night, including audio file.

2. Wechat nourishment with the shepherding face -to-face:

a. Home training face-to-face week by week.

b. Shepherd in the daily life through the wechat subscription the nourishment for new believers.

c. Key words inscription self-reply instruction.

(1). Enter’0101’into the Lord’s day at first week；

(2). Enter ‘0102’into the second of the first week；

(3). Enter’0103’into the third of the first week；

(4). And so on.

d. Show how to play nourishment for new believers on wechat by phone.

C. To keep morning revival which the two verses which they should read,through the telephone as the best way.We should not do this with the same person throughout the week. Instead, we may have morning watch with six different people on the six days of the week. This will really help people.

IV. The successful cases and testimonies of shepherding:

A. Brother LinHorng’s fellowship with burden——The pattern of preaching the gospel and shepherding at home in the Body at a fixed time every week.

B. The testimony of the New believers training in the church of God in Hong Kong: at the end of 2004, they start the new believers training for college students and the content is the twelve lessons of the New believers nourishment. The content of the lessons contain the items of the truth and the spiritual exercise. During the week, the mentor with the new ones have the spiritual exercise, Because of the training have restraint, so most of the new believers can participate the complete training content. After twelve weeks sturdy entering, the rate of remain is about 50%. According to the real situation in Hong Kong:

1. For the improve of the trainee’s positivity, the procedure of the church used: register, charge, signature, so the new believers can give a promise of the training, the promise is to accomplish of all the content of the training, the new ones who finished all the process will have a reward for encouragement.

2. During the process, the mentor with the new ones have the spiritual exercise, it is also a part of the lessons, this can increase the relationship between the mentor and the new believers of the living-companion, it’s not only cause the new believers get the proper cherishing, but also cause the saints positive functioning as a mentor.

3. In order to blending all the new ones in campus of Hong Kong, the church also arranged the ‘New Believers Group’ blending outside. In the two days blending, they pursue three messages of the new-believers which more important content inside, pursue the truth and practice the God-man living, so that the new believers can be rooted in the church life gradually.

C. The testimony concerning the begetting and nourishing in the college of GaoPingPeng.

D. The testimony of the home training.

V. How to shepherd the different people:

A. Use 《The Economy of God》、《The All-Inclusive Christ》、《The Normal Christian Life》 and the other books from brother Watchman Nee to shepherd the Christians.

B. For Muslim and Buddhist.

VI. The points needs to be pay attention to:

A. The attitude for shepherding：

1. Never give up the lamb- forgive people not seven times but seventy times.

2. To be a gentle nursing mother;

a. We are not gymnastics coach, not the school teacher, even not the hired servant of the flock.

b. The characters of the nourishing mother.

(1). Set a heart to be meek-do not oppose to the ones who are against us.

(2). Longing for the spiritual children-take care of the new ones keenly.

(3). Not only willing to share the gospel but also willing to share your life to the people.

(4). Consider a new one as a babe in Christ. The primary point, the prerequisite, is that you consider a newly baptized one as a babe in Christ. A new one may ask, “What is the Bible?” This may not sound like a babyish question, but you must answer as you would answer a baby; you must have this kind of concept. You must say the right words, and your attitude and tone must also be right. A new one may ask many questions, yet you must always have the concept that you are dealing with a babe in Christ. If you can learn this secret, you will be welcomed by every new one. They would like to hear your talk. In this way you can open the way to feed them. If you have learned this secret, after only two or three sentences, you will be warmly welcomed by him. He will open himself up to you, listen to you, and take your word. He will become very interested in whatever you say.

B. Not stumbling the newborn babies-Concerning Idols, Concerning the Clearance of the Past, Concerning Marriage, not like a professor convincing a student, That kind of attitude can never work out anything. You must hold the attitude that you are talking to a babe.

C. Taking care of the new ones —The work of taking care of the new ones must be a work of raising up children. We should not bring forth children and send them to others to be raised. The little ones should be directly under their mother’s care.

D. How to talk with the new one concerning the Christmas.

E. Shepherding in the vital group meeting.

1. After the new ones are established, we should bring them together with other saved ones in small groups of fifteen to twenty or twenty-five. For only one or two to be saved is not adequate to form a small group. Therefore, we need to help more new ones to be saved. Two or three brothers or sisters can join together to bring several newly saved ones to form a group. These brothers and sisters can then work together. We have to teach them, and we have to feed them, not just with milk, but with solid food.

2. After they baptize people, they should right away go back to their homes in the way we did for them the previous year. They should have home meetings with them to nourish, cherish, and take care of them. Then after three months, they should bring them together to have small group meetings. We should tell the young believers to do for others what we have done for them. They have learned and experienced many things. We are the first generation, and they are the second generation. Now they have to work on the third generation. After another one and a half years, the third generation will produce a fourth. Generation after generation the church will increase.

F. How to take care of the people(seen at addition 3).