I.　The unique need for practicing the God-ordained way—contacting people and visiting them regularly.

II.　Fulfilling the New Testament priesthood of the gospel—Rom. 15:16; 1 Pet. 2:5:

A.　Taking the lead among all the members of a local church in gospel preaching to get the new materials for the building up of that local church.

B.　Redeeming the time by budgeting it to make a weekly schedule for the gospel.

C.　Praying for the salvation of all our acquaintances who are not saved yet and following the Lord's leading to contact them desperately for the gospel's sake.

D.　Seeking new sources of sinners as our gospel candidates.

E.　Leading sinners to know the main content of the gospel.

F.　Leading sinners to be regenerated and saved.

G.　Bringing people to have a personal contact with the Lord by their spirit directly.

III.　Feeding the new believers—John 21:15-17; 1 Thes. 2:7:

A.　Leading the new believers to know that the Lord, our Savior, is a life-giving Spirit, and that they have a regenerated spirit.

B.　Helping the new believers to realize that the Lord as the Spirit lives in their spirit and that they should always exercise their spirit by prayer to contact the Lord, the Spirit.

C.　Teaching the new believers to pray-read a few verses of the Bible every morning for morning revival and read one chapter before going to bed.

D.　Leading them to do so by way of the telephone.

E.　Visiting them one or two times every week to take care of their spiritual condition and nourish them as a nursing mother.

IV.　Perfecting the saints—Eph. 4:11-12; Heb. 10:24-25:

A.　Forming a small group with a few saints and new believers.

B.　Leading the saints to practice mutual fellowship, mutual intercession, mutual care, and mutual shepherding in the group meetings.

C.　Helping the saints to also practice mutual asking of questions and mutual answering for mutual teaching.

D.　Perfecting and equipping the saints to practice all the steps of the God-ordained way.

V.　Prophesying to build up the church—1 Cor. 14:1, 31:

A.　Tutoring a few saints face to face concerning prophesying.

B.　Helping them to PSRP a portion of the Scriptures from their weekly reading.

C.　Helping them to compose their inspiration into a short message for their speaking.

D.　Helping them to pray the message beforehand and to seek the infilling and outpouring of the Spirit.

E.　Leading them to practice before the prophesying meeting and correcting them in order that they may improve in their voice, utterance, gesture, accent, speed, and the exercise of the spirit.

VI.　An additional word—three things to avoid in the eldership:

A.　Each of the elders should not regard himself as higher, more experienced, or better than the other elders—Phil. 2:3-8.

B.　The elders should not exercise any kind of control—1 Pet. 5:5; Eph. 5:21.

C.　The elders should not adjust people.