{"id":100110,"date":"2019-03-17T19:32:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T19:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/what-everyone-must-know-about-education\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T20:39:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:39:47","slug":"what-everyone-must-know-about-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/?p=100110","title":{"rendered":"Why Mentoring Is So Essential\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
What parenting is to family life, so mentoring<\/em> is to ministry.\u00a0 It is very similar to the age-old practice of a father teaching his son (one-on-one) the family trade.\u00a0 Formal training for the ministry should hold an important place in your priorities, but without a mentoring process, you will soon find that formal training does not nor cannot impart the experience and wisdom that are so essential for ministry.\u00a0 There are only two ways to acquire the needed experience and wisdom: (1) to learn by trial and error (the hard way) or (2) to acquire them both from someone who has them\u2014a mentor.<\/h6>\n

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It is here that most men entering into the ministry make a serious mistake.\u00a0 Starting off with a good measure of insecurity, they assume the naive idea that being leaders, they are supposed to have an answer or an idea for every situation and that they are responsible to do everything there is to do.\u00a0 With their insecurities well in place, pride requires them to isolate themselves from any outside help, particularly from other ministers.\u00a0 As isolation grows, so do the spirits of competition, mistrust, and suspicion towards all other ministries.\u00a0 Finally, when such men come to the end of themselves and timidly begin to seek help, they have real difficulty finding someone whom they can trust.\u00a0 Know that entering into a mentoring relationship early in your ministry will stop all this foolish, pride-caused trouble from happening.<\/h6>\n

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Mentoring is accomplished only by the building of relationships.\u00a0 True relationships happen only when we learn to become transparent.<\/em>\u00a0 Being transparent is one of the most difficult things\u2014if not the hardest\u2014for most men to do.\u00a0 Building relationships takes time, time to demonstrate love and build trust.\u00a0 But it is only here that mentoring can do its best job.\u00a0 Relationships afford knowledge and wisdom; answers come and solutions happen.\u00a0 Mentoring releases\u00a0the minister to enter the next level of his calling, each time and on time.<\/h6>\n

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Mentoring works best one-on-one or through small group meetings.\u00a0 Pastors meet within a certain geographical area, and someone with an apostolic calling mentors the group through a living example and with pertinent and meaningful instruction.\u00a0 This time together allows for plenty of time for dialogue.\u00a0 In this way, each minister gleans and\/or shares something useful during the session.\u00a0 In these times, he gains new confidence with his mentor, with his peers, and within himself.\u00a0 I have seen it many times, watching a group of pastors grow from being independent, self-conscious, and awkward spectators into becoming friends who can relate to and trust one another.\u00a0 They begin to open up to one another personally and then to share their giftings in one another\u2019s local churches.\u00a0 When these types of relationships are forged, nothing can stop a corporate vision from readily being accomplished.<\/h6>\n
Mentoring provides much fruit.\u00a0 It guides you into greater character, including ethics as well as self-assurance.\u00a0 Mentoring helps you to discover and achieve all your God-given giftings, your calling, your vision, and strategies.\u00a0 Mentoring affords wise counsel that can eliminate costly mistakes in judgment and procedure.\u00a0 True mentoring places you and your ministry in a place of accountability so necessary for proper, honest stewardship.<\/h6>\n

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With the arrival<\/em> of the apostolic ministry back into the church, mentoring can now assume its rightful and needful place within our lives.\u00a0 Now for the first time in centuries, the sons<\/em> of God in the ministry have access to fathers<\/em> within the ministry.\u00a0 We are seeing the role of the apostle taking its scriptural place.\u00a0 The apostles are not only those whose hearts are inspired with the vision of church planting and church maintenance, but also those whose lives, ethics, wisdom, order, and counsel publicly afford them their lead place in ministry (this is why the Scriptures list the apostle<\/em> first in every listing, without exception).\u00a0 This lead<\/em> position places them into the church governmentally<\/em> (government in every realm is really applied spiritual authority).\u00a0 As fathers, they are able and willing to follow Jesus\u2019 example, who is the chief<\/em> apostle (Hebrews 3:1<\/u>).<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What parenting is to family life, so mentoring is to ministry.\u00a0 It is very similar to the age-old practice of a father teaching his son (one-on-one) the family trade.\u00a0 Formal training for the ministry should hold an important place in your priorities, but without a mentoring process, you will soon find that formal training does […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[20,26,24,27],"class_list":["post-100110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","tag-college","tag-lms","tag-tutorial","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100462,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100110\/revisions\/100462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}