In Luke 10, Christ not only trained His disciples what to do, (i.e. Healing and Kingdom, authority and proclamation) and who to look for (i.e. Person of Peace who lead to Houses of Peace Bait Shalom), He also laid the foundation for leadership training in Lk 10.
1. Christ formed teams,
2. He trained those teams,
3. He sent those teams out.
L.E.A.P.P.
I'm not sure how you can translate this acronym into your languages but it is helpful to internalize these 5 topics to discuss in a leadership/mentoring meeting. This is an adaptation of what I learned from George's Patterson Church Multiplication Guide and what i caught in the year that I spent with him Oregon. This pattern that I learned from George while doing a "Temporary Underground Training Church Simulation" that we did was crucial to the breakthroughs we are seeing among 36,000 baptized Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu and Jewish Background Believers in MY country.
If obedience is the foundation to a movement then the Leadership Pattern that Christ lays in Luke 10 is the backbone of a movement. (This helps first generation trainees know what to discuss with their second generation trainees behind the scenes in their Facilitators/Leaders Meetings).
He Listened to their reports "Even the demons submit to us in your name"
He Evaluated their work
He Assigned new Activities and Studies. When they obeyed His commands to cast out demons, healing the sick and raise the dead, He gave them more activities "Don't rejoice in miraculous power more than someone's salvation" and "I saw Satan fall" This gave His disciples deeper doctrinal revelation into His Divine Nature. He let them understand that He was In the Beginning! They didn't get deeper insight until they obeyed the previous lessons. Christ stopped teaching people who don't obey.
He Praised them in the presence of His Father. (gave them encouragement). Finally
He Prayed for them.
This leadership pattern was passed onto Peter and the other 12 disciples and then Paul likely caught this pattern from Peter when he stayed with him for 2 weeks in Jerusalem in Galatians 1:18. Some CPM trainers claim that Paul was mentored by Barnabas but I think he caught the pattern from Peter and the other Apostles. Paul wrote about this principle to his trainee Timothy, "These things that you have heard from me say in the presence of many witnesses, entrust to responsible people who are able to train others" in 2 Tim. 2:2. This behind the scenes pattern was also passed on to "the outstanding Apostles", Aquila and Priscilla in Acts 18:18-26 and then on to Apollos. This pattern also multiplied the Disciple Multiplication Movement on the island of Crete in Titus 1:5. This behind the scenes leadership training pattern was so important that it was written about in Matthew 10, Luke 10 after Jesus ascended to Heaven we can see the principles played out in Acts 10. In Acts 10 Peter left the care of the first Italian church in the hands of Cornelius. It isn't stated but it is highly probable that Cornelius was the first leader of his house church network.
When Peter returned to Jerusalem he and Cornelius likely started writing letters to one another. This pattern is "learn a little and practice a lot." This is they same way successful language learners, farmers, soldiers and surgeons are apprenticed on the job. This pattern is caught more than taught. Luke 10:23-24 "Then he turned to his disciples and said privately, 'Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.”'
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