A Ministry of Mentoring

Therefore encourage one another and build each another up. —1 Thessalonians 5:11

Mentoring usually doesn’t happen as much in a formal teaching environment as it does through intentional, nurturing relationships. At times that discipleship may take place in a small group meeting or a scheduled appointment. More often, however, it takes place organically, in the laboratory of life.

Older women teaching from their lives, investing in those who come after them, training them in what is good. Young women soaking up the help and the advice and learning to reach out to those who come after them.

And no, this kind of mentoring isn’t easy. It requires discipline and planning. Time and patience. Willingness to commit to a relationship. Honesty in opening our lives to one another. Nor are we likely to see dramatic results overnight. It’s a matter of getting next to someone, walking alongside her, going over to see her when you might rather be doing something else. It’s costly—the same way anything worthwhile is costly.

But who doesn’t want, looking back, to see a legacy of fruitful relationships?

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Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together

©2017 Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Scripture taken from The CSB