Mentoring

Mentoring

Join us Thursday night for our first Men’s Fellowship of the New Year. Pastor John Helm is our speaker. Dinner is at 6:15 PM followed by a time of worship, Bible study and fun. Call 732-350-1187 for information.

“ … each generation should set its hope anew on God, not forgetting His glorious miracles and obeying His commands. Then they will not be like their ancestors – stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful, refusing to give their hearts to God.” Psalm 78:7-8 (NLT)

I have been doing a lot of study about the Millennial generation as I believe God wants to really do something with that group. This is a group that I believe has the potential to turn this world upside down for the Kingdom if we can win them to Christ and encourage them to grow in their walk with God.

One of the characteristics of this group is that they want to be mentored. They want someone to teach them about their jobs, how to raise their families, how to handle money.

For those of us who are Boomers, this is unfamiliar territory. We didn’t want anyone’s help because we had all the answers. But this generation wants us to come alongside and not just tell them what to do – “teach us” is their mantra.

Singer-songwriter-worship leader, Darlene Zschech in her new book, The Art of Mentoring – Embracing the Great Generational Transition (Bethany House Publishers) writes that in order to foster the next generation, we must become selfless leaders who are not out to make a name or position for ourselves but rather willing to pass on our knowledge and understanding for the Kingdom’s sake … Man has a tendency to put his own reputation and desire for recognition above all else. Too often, when those who follow us start to advance beyond what we have accomplished, jealousy prevails and the mentoring comes to a screeching halt.

Mentoring takes place at home, on the job and in church. As leaders, parents, ministry leaders, we need to start thinking about ways to come alongside of these precious young people and lovingly find ways that we can pull up and say, “How can I help you get from here to there.”

Solomon says that there is nothing new under the son. That’s the kind of relationship Paul and Timothy had. Are there Timothy’s around you that need mentoring? Are their Paul’s in your life that you could learn from? Let’s be intentional and be there for the next generation. – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s Keswick

Team YOU: Genesis 23-24; Proverbs 9; Matthew 7

Motivations: If we work on marble it will perish. If we work on brass, time will efface it. If we raise temples, they will crumble to dust. But if we work on men's immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with just fear of God and love of their fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which time cannot efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

Daniel Webster
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Practice to Remember: Level 1: Ephesians 1:13; Level 2: Ephesians 1:7-14 

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