Mentoring

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Mentoring

• A Path to Spiritual Growth

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What is Mentoring?

• Mentoring is
• Imparting knowledge and experience to another
  person
• Advising and providing guidance
• A long term process
• A mutually beneficial partnership

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• The term mentor dates back to ancient Greek
  times. When Ulysses embarked on his long journey
  in the classic Greek tale, The Odyssey, he chose
  his wise and trusted friend Mentor, to guide and
  teach his son.

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A quote from Dan Wilt on Fathers Day

• We could celebrate the roles of mothers today.
  We could celebrate the role of women of
  influence, mentors of young men and womens
  lives
• There is a unique role that God gives to Fathers
  and to males to become mentors within young men
  and womens lives. Fathers (Mentors) impart
  identity.

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There are many examples of mentoring roles in the
Bible

• Moses and Joshua (The Lord Saves)
• Joshua fights the Amalekites under Moses (Exodus
  178-9)
• 8 The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites
  at Rephidim.
• 9 Moses said to Joshua, "Choose some of our men
  and go out to fight
• the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top
  of the hill with the staff
• of God in my hands."

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On Mount Sinai with Moses (Exodus 2412-13)

• 12 The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me on the
  mountain and stay here, and I will give you the
  tablets of stone, with the law and commands I
  have written for their instruction."
• 13 Then Moses set out with Joshua his aide, and
  Moses went up on the mountain of God.

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On Mount Sinai with Moses (Exodus 3216-19)

• 16 The tablets were the work of God the writing
  was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
• 17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people
  shouting, he said to Moses, "There is the sound
  of war in the camp."
• 18 Moses replied        "It is not the sound of
  victory,        it is not the sound of defeat
         it is the sound of singing that I hear."
• 19 When Moses approached the camp and saw the
  calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he
  threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them
  to pieces at the foot of the mountain.

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Mordecai and Esther (Esther 25-7)

• 5 Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of
  the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of
  Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish,
• 6 who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem
  by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those
  taken captive with Jehoiachin king of Judah.
• 7 Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he
  had brought up because she had neither father nor
  mother. This girl, who was also known as Esther,
  was lovely in form and features, and Mordecai had
  taken her as his own daughter when her father and
  mother died.

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Hamans Plot to destroy the Jews (Esther 31-11)

• 1 After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman
  son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him and
  giving him a seat of honor higher than that of
  all the other nobles.
• 2 All the royal officials at the king's gate
  knelt down and paid honor to Haman, for the king
  had commanded this concerning him. But Mordecai
  would not kneel down or pay him honor.
• 3 Then the royal officials at the king's gate
  asked Mordecai, "Why do you disobey the king's
  command?"
• 4 Day after day they spoke to him but he refused
  to comply. Therefore they told Haman about it to
  see whether Mordecai's behavior would be
  tolerated, for he had told them he was a Jew.
• 5 When Haman saw that Mordecai would not kneel
  down or pay him honor, he was enraged.
• 6 Yet having learned who Mordecai's people were,
  he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai.
  Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all
  Mordecai's people, the Jews, throughout the whole
  kingdom of Xerxes.

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• 7 In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the
  first month, the month of Nisan, they cast the
  pur (that is, the lot) in the presence of Haman
  to select a day and month. And the lot fell on
  the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
• 8 Then Haman said to King Xerxes, "There is a
  certain people dispersed and scattered among the
  peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom
  whose customs are different from those of all
  other people and who do not obey the king's laws
  it is not in the king's best interest to tolerate
  them.
• 9 If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued
  to destroy them, and I will put ten thousand
  talents of silver into the royal treasury for the
  men who carry out this business."
• 10 So the king took his signet ring from his
  finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha,
  the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.
• 11 "Keep the money," the king said to Haman, "and
  do with the people as you please."

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Mordecais Advice to Esther (Esther 45-14)

• 5 Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king's
  eunuchs assigned to attend her, and ordered him
  to find out what was troubling Mordecai and why.
• 6 So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the open
  square of the city in front of the king's gate.
• 7 Mordecai told him everything that had happened
  to him, including the exact amount of money Haman
  had promised to pay into the royal treasury for
  the destruction of the Jews.
• 8 He also gave him a copy of the text of the
  edict for their annihilation, which had been
  published in Susa, to show to Esther and explain
  it to her, and he told him to urge her to go into
  the kings presence to beg for mercy and plead
  with him for her people.
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• 9 Hathach went back and reported to Esther what
  Mordecai had said.
• 10 Then she instructed him to say to Mordecai,
• 11 "All the king's officials and the people of
  the royal provinces know that for any man or
  woman who approaches the king in the inner court
  without being summoned the king has but one law
  that he be put to death. The only exception to
  this is for the king to extend the gold scepter
  to him and spare his life. But thirty days have
  passed since I was called to go to the king."
• 12 When Esther's words were reported to Mordecai,
  
• 13 he sent back this answer "Do not think that
  because you are in the king's house you alone of
  all the Jews will escape.
• 14 For if you remain silent at this time, relief
  and deliverance for the Jews will arise from
  another place, but you and your father's family
  will perish. And who knows but that you have come
  to royal position for such a time as this?"

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Esther Petitions the King (Esther 71-10)

• 1 So the king and Haman went to dine with Queen
  Esther,
• 2 And as they were drinking wine on that second
  day, the king again asked, "Queen Esther, what is
  your petition? It will be given you. What is your
  request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be
  granted."
• 3 Then Queen Esther answered, "If I have found
  favor with you, O king, and if it pleases your
  majesty, grant me my lifethis is my petition.
  And spare my peoplethis is my request.
• 4 For I and my people have been sold for
  destruction and slaughter and annihilation. If we
  had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I
  would have kept quiet, because no such distress
  would justify disturbing the king."
• 5 King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, "Who is he?
  Where is the man who has dared to do such a
  thing?"

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• 6 Esther said, "The adversary and enemy is this
  vile Haman." Then Haman was terrified before the
  king and queen.
• 7 The king got up in a rage, left his wine and
  went out into the palace garden. But Haman,
  realizing that the king had already decided his
  fate, stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his
  life.
• 8 Just as the king returned from the palace
  garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on
  the couch where Esther was reclining. The king
  exclaimed, "Will he even molest the queen while
  she is with me in the house?" As soon as the word
  left the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
  
• 9 Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs attending the
  king, said, "A gallows seventy-five feet high
  stands by Haman's house. He had it made for
  Mordecai, who spoke up to help the king." The
  king said, "Hang him on it!"
• 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had
  prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's fury
  subsided.

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The Call of Elisha (1 Kings 1919-21)

• 19 So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son
  of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of
  oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth
  pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak
  around him.
• 20 Elisha then left his oxen and ran after
  Elijah. "Let me kiss my father and mother
  good-by," he said, "and then I will come with
  you." "Go back," Elijah replied. "What have I
  done to you?"
• 21 So Elisha left him and went back. He took his
  yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the
  plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to
  the people, and they ate. Then he set out to
  follow Elijah and became his attendant.

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Elijah tests Elisha (2 Kings 21-6)

• 1 When the LORD was about to take Elijah up to
  heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on
  their way from Gilgal.
• 2 Elijah said to Elisha, "Stay here the LORD has
  sent me to Bethel." But Elisha said, "As surely
  as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not
  leave you." So they went down to Bethel.
• 3 The company of the prophets at Bethel came out
  to Elisha and asked, "Do you know that the LORD
  is going to take your master from you today?"
   "Yes, I know," Elisha replied, "but do not
  speak of it."
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• 4 Then Elijah said to him, "Stay here, Elisha
  the LORD has sent me to Jericho." And he replied,
  "As surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I
  will not leave you." So they went to Jericho.
• 5 The company of the prophets at Jericho went up
  to Elisha and asked him, "Do you know that the
  LORD is going to take your master from you
  today?" "Yes, I know," he replied, "but do not
  speak of it."
• 6 Then Elijah said to him, "Stay here the LORD
  has sent me to the Jordan." And he replied, "As
  surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will
  not leave you." So the two of them walked on.

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Elishas Request (2 Kings 2 9-10)

• 9 When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha,
  "Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken
  from you?" "Let me inherit a double portion of
  your spirit," Elisha replied.
• 10 "You have asked a difficult thing," Elijah
  said, "yet if you see me when I am taken from
  you, it will be yoursotherwise not.

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Elijah taken to Heaven in a fiery chariot (2
Kings 2 11-15)

• 11 As they were walking along and talking
  together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses
  of fire appeared and separated the two of them,
  and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.
• 12 Elisha saw this and cried out, "My father! My
  father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!" And
  Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his
  own clothes and tore them apart.
• 13 He picked up the cloak that had fallen from
  Elijah and went back and stood on the bank of the
  Jordan.
• 14 Then he took the cloak that had fallen from
  him and struck the water with it. "Where now is
  the LORD, the God of Elijah?" he asked. When he
  struck the water, it divided to the right and to
  the left, and he crossed over.
• 15 The company of the prophets from Jericho, who
  were watching, said, "The spirit of Elijah is
  resting on Elisha."

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The Mount of Transfiguration (Matthew 171-9)

• 1 After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James
  and John the brother of James, and led them up a
  high mountain by themselves.
• 2 There he was transfigured before them. His face
  shone like the sun, and his clothes became as
  white as the light.
• 3 Just then there appeared before them Moses and
  Elijah, talking with Jesus.
• 4 Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us
  to be here. If you wish, I will put up three
  sheltersone for you, one for Moses and one for
  Elijah."

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• 5 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud
  enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said,
  "This is my Son, whom I love with him I am well
  pleased. Listen to him!"
• 6 When the disciples heard this, they fell
  facedown to the ground, terrified.
• 7 But Jesus came and touched them. "Get up," he
  said. "Don't be afraid."
• 8 When they looked up, they saw no one except
  Jesus.
• 9 As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus
  instructed them, "Don't tell anyone what you have
  seen, until the Son of Man has been raised from
  the dead."

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The Raising of a Dead Girl (Mark 535-43)

• 35 While Jesus was still speaking, some men came
  from the house of Jairus, the synagogue ruler.
  "Your daughter is dead," they said. "Why bother
  the teacher any more?"
• 36 Ignoring what they said, Jesus told the
  synagogue ruler, "Don't be afraid just believe."
  
• 37 He did not let anyone follow him except Peter,
  James and John the brother of James.
• 38 When they came to the home of the synagogue
  ruler, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying
  and wailing loudly. .
  

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• 39 He went in and said to them, "Why all this
  commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but
  asleep."
• 40 But they laughed at him. After he put them all
  out, he took the child's father and mother and
  the disciples who were with him, and went in
  where the child was.
• 41 He took her by the hand and said to her,
  "Talitha koum!" (which means, "Little girl, I say
  to you, get up!" ).
• 42 Immediately the girl stood up and walked
  around (she was twelve years old). At this they
  were completely astonished.
• 43 He gave strict orders not to let anyone know
  about this, and told them to give her something
  to eat.

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Examples from my own life

• Effective mentors are people of vision they
  see the diamond in the rough, recognize potential
  that others do not see, and believe that the
  potential can be achieved. A great mentor helps
  protégés believe that they can achieve above and
  beyond anything that they have ever dreamed
  possible and demonstrate the patience and
  persistence required to see that potential
  realized.
• Donald Carmont in The Naked Mentor

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Monty Cutts (Faithful)

• Who he was
• My Story
• The Trip Montreal (Anglican Nuns, Renewal Day
  OSL Conference)
• The Weekly Bible Study
• Taking it on the Road Visitation
• The winter visit (May Fisher)
• The summer visits (Baldwin Settlement)
• Hospital Visit (our first baby)
• The last visits (Freda Young)

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Philip Ward (Evangelist)

• The son of Canon Ronald Eve Ward
• Our Story A young family in a rural parish
• What drew us The Revelation Series
• The focus
• My part
• His Response

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Selwyn Hughes (Bible Teacher)

• Who he was
• My Story (Bob Smith)
• Every Day With Jesus
• What book are you reading?

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Where do we go from here?

• What do I want to learn/be?
• What can I teach/model?
• Things to think pray about
• Who could I mentor?
• Who could mentor me?