MENTORING

 Introduction

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 SIMPLEST DEFINITION
A Mentor is a helper.
Mentoring takes place when one person helps another person
to grow.
Mentors can:
○ help people learn the basics of walking with Christ (disciplers),

○ help people learn how to mature in depth in their Christian life (spirituality
mentors),

○ help people learn to do things (coaches),

○ help people by giving wise advice to help them through situations

(counselors),

○ help people learn necessary ideas and get perspectives (teachers),

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 Mentoring, More Complex Definitions
Mentoring is a relational experience in which one person
empowers another person by a transfer of resources.

Mentoring is a relational process in which one person

called the mentor, empowers another person, called the
mentoree, by an exchange of resources at an impactful
time where the empowerment can be:
○ new habits,
○ knowledge,
○ skills,
○ desires,
○ values,
○ connections to resources for growth and development of potential,
○ and other such items.

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 Mentoring Functions Along A Continuum

Intensive Occasional Passive

Mentoring Mentoring Mentoring

1. Discipling 4. Counseling 7. Contemporary Model

2. Spiritual Guide 5. Teaching 8. Historical Model
3. Coach 6. Sponsoring 9. Divine Contact
5 Dynamics*: 1. Attraction; 2. Relationship; 3. Responsiveness;
4. Accountability; 5. Empowerment
More Deliberate Less Deliberate

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 Central Thrust Of Mentor Types
TYPE EMPOWERMENT

1. DISCIPLER HABITS

2. SPIRITUAL GUIDE EVALUATION

3. COACH SKILLS

4. COUNSELOR ADVICE

5. TEACHER KNOWLEDGE

6. SPONSOR PROTECTION

7. CONTEMPORARY MODEL VALUES

8. HISTORICAL MODEL INSPIRATION

9. DIVINE CONTACT GUIDANCE

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 STANLEY’S THESIS
Over A Lifetime A Christian Leader Needs A Balanced
Relational Network With Christians Who Will Help Him/her
And Vice Versa.

Upward Help:
A Christian leader needs to relate to people more experienced in the Christian life
who will help them in their growth and give needed perspective as well as help
them be accountable for growth.

Lateral Help:
A Christian leader needs to relate to people who are peers in the Christian life
who will share, care, and relate so as to encourage them to persevere.

Downward Help:
A Christian leaders needs to relate to people who he/she can help to grow.

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 Constellation Model
Upward Mentoring--People
You Are Receiving Mentoring
From

External Peer Internal Peer

Mentoring--receive Mentoring--receive
Help and give Help Help and give Help

Downward Mentoring:
People You Are
Mentoring
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 3 Ways of Connecting
1. TOP DOWN RECRUITING

Mentors recruiting mentorees.

2. BOTTOM-UP RECRUITING

Mentorees recruiting mentors.

3. LINKERS

Someone with mentor eyes recognizes

potential mentorees and mentors and
links them in a sponsoring fashion.

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 3 Suggestions for Connecting--Bottom Up

1. Think Small--focus on specific needs.

2. Think faith--pray and trust God to bring someone along

that can help in the specific area.

3. Think aggressively--But do it gently

ask/ seek/ knock/ attempt to establish a relationship/
demonstrate responsiveness in every way you can;

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 Ten Insights Helping Me Mentor
1. Mentor-mix
2. Mentoring Load
3. Selection of Mentorees
4. Handling the details of mentoring.
5. More Realistic Expectations
6. Resources
7. Length
8. A-periodic Scheduling
9. Work on relationships
10. Group mentoring
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 5 Enhancements For Finishing Well
1. A broad PERSPECTIVE on a lifetime of ministry from which to interpret on-going
ministry;
2. An expectancy for RENEWAL. All leaders should expectantly look for repeated times
of renewal. Most leaders who have been effective over a lifetime have needed and
welcomed renewal experiences from time to time in their lives;
3. The practice of DISCIPLINES. Leaders need discipline of all kinds.
Especially is this true of spiritual disciplines;
4. Having a LEARNING POSTURE.
The single most important antidote to plateauing is a well developed learning
posture;

5. Having MENTORS.
Many biographies of leaders show that leaders who were effective and finished
well had from 10 to 15 significant people who came alongside at one time or
another to help them.

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