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Explore the support behind mentoring for those in ministry, and get solid advice about mentoring and being mentored.
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Guest: Rev. Jeff Cloeter is an author and a parish pastor in St. Louis, Missouri. He’s a sixth-generation pastor whose ministry has also included camps, youth ministry, and church planting.
Introduction: Explore the support behind mentoring, and get solid advice about mentoring and being mentored.
Summary:
- In life and ministry, we benefit from those who came before us
- Different pictures of mentoring (or discipleship—formation as a Christian leader)
- Two poles: we often fall somewhere in between
- Formal and institutional (academic)
- Informal (personal and relational)
- Apprenticeship and imitation
- Two poles: we often fall somewhere in between
- Why find time for mentoring?
- Consider the “long game”
- Planting the seeds for tomorrow—don’t wait!
- How to find time
- Multi-tasking (“never go to town alone”)
- Align your tasks and purposes—not separate programs
- Recommended for all pastors and leaders
- Spend the time; get things done intentionally (and unintentionally!)
- Think of one person—where can you bring that person to “walk” with you
- Mimic Jesus’ ministry: both large and small groups
- Advice for those looking for a mentoring relationship
- List five people you’d like to learn from; ask them!
- List people you’d like to mentor; ask them!
- Be real, vulnerable
- Make it personal: Who has poured into me? How can I do that for someone else?
Resources:
- Carey Nieuwhof website and podcast
- The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The Bible, specifically the Gospels
