Mentors
John 15:26-16:33
A mentor is defined by Webster’s as ‘a close, trusted, and experienced counselor or guide’. Essentially someone who has been there, done that and is willing to pass on the wisdom they have gained from their experience to another. One of the central features of the life of Christ is His mentoring of twelve everyday guys. They lived together for three years, sharing good times and bad with Jesus giving them the wisdom of His experience as they followed Him. The goal was for those twelve guys to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them and teaching them to obey everything they had been shown. The crisis comes when Jesus has to leave, when the disciples can no longer physically follow Him and they now have to walk on their own.