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Intentional MentoringSession 1
Introduction and Biblical Principles
Paul Wilcoxwww.thementoringnetwork.
net
Exodus 2:11-14
- What is YOUR secret?
- Are you facing, or have you faced,a burning bush?
Galatians 5
- It is for FREEDOM that Christ has set us free
Mentoring is discipleship with a kick! Paul Wilcox
Background
-Historically the word ‘mentor’ comes
from Homer’s classic ‘The Odyssey’ -Today – ‘An experienced and
trusted adviser’ Oxford English Dictionary
Types of Mentoring
- Intensive mentors (discipler, spiritual guide, coach)
- Occasional mentors (counsellor, teacher, sponsor, peer, internal and
external)
- Passive mentors (contemporary and historical)
And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others
2 Timothy 2:2, TNIV
‘Mentoring is a dynamic, intentional relationship of trust in which one person (mentor) enables another (mentoree) by sharing their God given experience and resources, to maximise the grace of God in their life, and in the service of God’s Kingdom purposes’
Arrow Leadership Programme
- Christianity is about relationshipRelationships unlock the post modern heart
Robin Rolls
- Biblical images (vine, body)
- Greek word ‘Koinonia’ - we have a duty to love one another (John 13:34)
- John Wesley’s General Rules for Methodist Fellowships: ‘Watch over one another in love’ (1743)
- We NEED each other (Ecclesiastes 4:9-
12,Proverbs 27:17)
‘A person trying to make it on their own is an accident waiting to happen’ Howard Hendricks
‘…strengthen your brothers’ Jesus’ words to Simon, Luke
22:32b
We would add ‘...strengthen your sisters’
Jethro and Moses
Moses and Joshua
Elijah and Elisha
Barnabas and Paul
David and Jonathan
Paul and Timothy
Ruth and Naomi
Jesus - the perfect model, method and message for mentoring
We must get to know: - His being - His words - His deeds
So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
Romans 12:1-2, The Message
Leadership training cannot be doneon a mass scale. It requires patient,careful instruction and prayerful,personal guidance over a considerabletime. Disciples are not manufactured wholesale. They are produced one by one because someone took the pains to discipline, to instruct, and enlighten, to
nurture and train one that is younger. J O Saunders, Spiritual
Leadership
I can see no way for effectivediscipleship (mentoring) to happenin the 21st Century, apart from
through small groups and one-to-one relationships.
Bishop Graham Cray
Invest in the few for the sake of the many
Leighton Ford
Spiritual Parenting
-An increasingly important contemporary model for mentoring
-Emotional and spiritual orphans
-Father Heart of God (Floyd McClung)