[2]<\/a> If you are a gospel ministry leader, I encourage you to consider what kind of time you spend mentoring one or two Christians as much as you consider how many people the church is reaching through the public Worship Gathering and Bible classes.<\/p>\nIf you think you can care for all the brothers and sisters around you equally well and give them all personal, prioritized attention, you may need to ask yourself if you think that you are a better leader than Jesus.\u00a0 Some leaders wear themselves out, neglecting their personal health and\/or their own family members, to try to achieve a level of ministry to the whole family of Christ that even Jesus was unwilling to pursue.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Our job as leaders is to multiply ministry so that Christ\u2019s mission reaches far more people than we could ever reach on our own.\u00a0 That\u2019s why it is so important to give our mentees personal, prioritized attention.\u00a0 Because we are limited human beings as Jesus was in his time of humility here on this earth, we cannot give focused attention to dozens of people but only a handful.\u00a0 We train them with the hope that they may be able to help us disciple and train others by the power of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nurture a meaningful relationship with mentees by making them a priority and spending informal time with them. Let\u2019s return to Kung Fu Panda. Master Shifu\u2019s initial methods of training Po to become the Dragon Warrior fail miserably.\u00a0 After decades training some of the greatest warriors in history, Master Shifu is convinced that Po is just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gospel-centered-mentoring"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewdoebler.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewdoebler.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewdoebler.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewdoebler.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewdoebler.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/matthewdoebler.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/matthewdoebler.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewdoebler.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewdoebler.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewdoebler.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}