Mentor for Life by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Author:Natasha Sistrunk Robinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2016-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

• All great leaders mentor. Mentoring is an integral part of leadership.

• Mentoring is crucial to successfully accomplishing any mission.

Let’s unpack these fundamentals. For me, they are connected to the concepts of mission accomplishment and troop welfare. In the military, there is always a clear objective, and when you have reached your goal, you have successfully accomplished your mission. In the church, we can define mission accomplishment as making and multiplying disciples of Jesus Christ for the purpose of glorifying God and advancing His kingdom agenda.

Troop welfare is a concept that reminds us that the success of our mission is largely dependent on the holistic well-being of the service men and women. How are the troops doing? Are they healthy? Are they physically fit? Are their families taken care of? Are they ready for battle? Are they prepared to engage the enemy? In the church, this means we intentionally establish God-centered relationships by prayerfully and intentionally calling people to follow Jesus, compassionately teaching and training them along the way, and equipping them for works of service in God’s kingdom.

Mission Accomplishment: It’s Purposeful

Whether you are thinking about launching a mentoring small group within your home or starting a mentoring ministry in your local church, your purpose must be clear. My deep conviction from the beginning was that our church needed a mentoring ministry that was intentional and holistic—a ministry wherein a team of mentors could be trained to make disciples of Jesus Christ and who commit to God’s kingdom mission of transforming the world. This led me to define mentoring in the following way:

Mentoring is a trusted partnership where people share wisdom that fosters spiritual growth and leads to transformation, as mentors and disciples grow in their love of Christ, knowledge of self, and love of others.

With this definition in place, our team understood that mission accomplishment or ministry “success” meant lives transformed into Christ’s image. Our goal wasn’t a large ministry or having a certain number of women in each mentoring group. Winning was about God’s kingdom mission. Winning was about seeing his work accomplished through the life transformation of all participants.

The Bible reveals that this kind of transformation is God’s work of the heart—something only God can do. It is best reflected in our posture toward God and our relationships with other people. So while God needs to do the miraculous spiritual work of transformation, we can submit by teaching and encouraging women to assume a posture of receptivity to God. If we are not changing and growing in our understanding of who God is, if we are not surrendered to being changed by him, and if our relationships only bear the fruit of brokenness, unforgiveness, and bitterness, lacking Christian love and peace, we have to question whether our church is truly engaging in God’s mission of making disciples. My hope is that the lessons and stories shared here will inspire and equip you to know God’s kingdom mission and to commit your life, ministry, and work to that mission.

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