Life with God · 7gc.me/mh2 · tothelord.com · the Patterson lineage
The aim is not cerebral knowledge. It is people encountering Jesus and growing in intimacy with God (Mt 22:37–38; Jn 17:3; 1 Jn 2:3–6). Obedience is the fruit of that encounter — assessed by love-response, never by willpower.
Seeking God for who He is, not for what He gives. Mary at His feet — the one thing needed.
The second is like it: loving people, serving, giving, making disciples — flowing from presence.
Constantly return to M2L. At Antioch they were ministering to the Lord when the Spirit spoke and sent.
The flow is M2L → M4L → return to M2L — in every gathering, every command, every scale. When serving crowds out sitting at His feet, the answer is always the return.
Remember what God says · comprehend what it means for you · live it as a love-response to Him. (Lk 10:26–28)
Loving & obeying, helping others do the same · raising others who raise others · a community helping other communities. (2 Ti 2:2)
A person can be mature in one command and new in another. Every new disciple, leader, and church carries the same potential as its parent — a grain of wheat produces a plant equal to the one that sowed it. Release early; don't control the chain.
How to carry it: teach the truth of each command directly (it comes from outside — Ro 10:17); facilitate the Six Encounter Questions without steering (the Spirit supplies in the moment — Jn 14:26). Give fuller input to new disciples; ask more and supply less as they mature.
Held in love: this is voluntary and self-owned, discerned together without condemnation. Celebrate an honest “not yet” as much as obedience — the group is a witness, never a tribunal. Nothing here is a score, a rank, or a reward.
This sheet is a trainer's reference, not the oral disciple's tool. What a new, unlettered disciple actually carries and reproduces is the Six Encounter Questions + the Bible stories + the hand motions (7gc.me/8gchand) — not this page.
How hearts meet Jesus and obedience reproduces. Not knowledge quizzes, not willpower pledges — encounter, love-response, and return. (mh2 sections A, B, D, E, H)
See — God loves you and gave everything. Shift — receive Him, become His child. Sift — loving God is first. Then your story: life before Jesus → the gift received → eternal life now. One-minute and three-minute versions, in plain words.
List people; pray often. Visit; pray for wisdom and boldness. Share your story and the Father's story (Lk 15:11–32). Ask: “What does that show you about the God who's with you?” Listen. Invite them to follow Jesus; meet regularly; give them the guide.
George Patterson's tool, born defending young churches from legalistic attack. It keeps this rubric from ever hardening into tradition-enforcement.
Highest authority. Required of all disciples, in every circumstance; never prohibited.
This rubric assesses ONLY theseBiblical examples, not commanded — meeting in homes, baptizing the same day, sharing possessions, frequent Lord's Supper. Free to follow; no one may require or prohibit them.
FreedomNot in the New Testament. Their only authority is a congregation's voluntary agreement — and only for that congregation. Never judge another group by our customs.
Local only7gc.me/mh2 ("Life with God") supplies the Six Encounter Questions, the gathering rhythm, the stories, the practices, and the Disciple / Leader / Church definitions. tothelord.com deepens Command 1 (Love God / Ministry TO the Lord). George Patterson (Church Multiplication Guide, with Richard Scoggins; "The Spontaneous Multiplication of Churches" in Perspectives) is the framework's headwaters: obedience-oriented discipleship, the basic commands, the Three Levels of Authority, Paul–Timothy chains.
My judgment, not the sources': sorting items into Know / Understand / Do and phrasing each Do at the three scales. Command names and references are verbatim as you set them.
Sources: 7gc.me/mh2 · tothelord.com · hand motions: 7gc.me/8gchand