Mentoring! Mentoring! Mentoring! I keep hearing the word "mentoring" at conferences, in conversations, in books, and speaking invitations.
Jayme Hull, author of
Face to Face: Discovering How Mentoring Can Change Your Life interviewed me recently on her podcast. See
http://www.jaymeleehull.com/podcast/ep-17-encouragement-marriages-elaine-w-miller/
Michelle Lazurek asked me to speak on mentoring at Coudersport Alliance Church's Spring banquet.
A month ago I commented on a blog and won Janet Thompson's book
Mentoring for All Seasons.
All right God. You have my attention.
Janet Thompson's Mentoring
for All Seasons opened my eyes to truth. Titus 2 doesn't encourage us to
mentor younger women if we feel like it or we can fit mentoring into our busy days.
Mentoring isn't a
suggestion.
Mentoring is a command!
"These older
women must train the younger women
to love their husbands and their children,
to live wisely and be pure. . . "
Titus 2:4-5 (NLT)
Please notice the words "must train." Not perhaps train or find time to train or feel qualified to train but "must train."
We must step up to this task and obey God's command to train the younger women. For if we don't, who will? Social media? Hollywood? satan? They will and they do.
Let us not sit back trusting God for our Christian sisters and daughters
while the world equips them with and encourages them towards ungodliness.
Mentoring
for All Seasons takes the fear out
of mentoring as a complete easy-to-understand, fun-to-read mentoring handbook.
Janet Thompson walks the reader through every season and possible circumstance
of life, making mentoring easy with tips and testimonies, Biblical examples,
questions to ask, and resources to use. Thank you Janet Thompson for an
excellent resource as well as admonition to reach younger generations for
Christ.
Psst: Did you notice Titus 2 says, "train the younger women to love their husbands"? In Mentoring for All Seasons, Janet Thompson encourages us to sit down with young wives and mentor them in marriage. She recommends We All Married Idiots: Three Things You Will Never Change About Your Marriage and Ten Things You Can as a book that would be fun and easy to use to mentor wives and those who hope to be wives. Thanks Janet for the shout out. What a sweet surprise!
Splash some serenity on a younger woman and mentor them towards God! You'll feel some of those splashes too. Promise.
