Saturday, May 16, 2015
Failed Mentoring
The concept "mentoring" is large in the Church today. Paul Stanley and Bobby Clinton define mentoring as "a relational experience in which one person empowers another". With this in mind, Jesus is frequently portrayed as the ultimate mentor. For instance, Regi Campbell, Richard Chancy, and Andy Stanley state: "Jesus was (and is) the ultimate mentor." However, Andrew Murray suggests in his book Humility that Jesus failed
as a mentor -- or perhaps rather, that His disciples failed His best efforts, which amounts to about the same. As the
prime example, Murray offers the words of Jesus: "Learn from me, for I
am meek and lowly in heart" (Matthew 11:29), and then at the
Last Supper: "There was a strife among them, which of them should be
accounted the greatest" (Luke 22:24 -- no meekness or lowliness here). So they learnt nothing. It was
only when they were empowered from on high that things changed.
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