Did you know that every great work and every great leader has been mentored by someone along the way? When a person pursues a doctorate degree from a (legitimate) university one of the unique features of this arduous program is a MENTOR. Great literature is endorsed by individuals who are considered an authority on the subject. Great students are guided by great teachers and counselors who have taken a special interest in helping them realize their full potential, worth, and abilities. Children are a product of their parents who have in some way sacrificed much and laid down their lives for their child in order for them to receive the many things in life they deemed valuable.
You see, leadership is something we are all called to and our work is on a variety of different platforms. What I believe is key to understand is that in the same way we are parented and mentored by loving leaders, spiritual parenting and mentoring is something that should also be a part of a believer’s life if they are to be all that God created them to be.
If you are surrounded by individuals who are struggling just like you then expect to labor long and hard on the same issues together until someone wises up and the others seek to follow. Realize your greatest benefit from such relationships will be encouragement because this is what they were designed for…“to encourage one another.” However, if you are surrounded or connected to individuals who have lived through your challenges and able to not only encourage you but also counsel, guide, correct and instruct you through your challenge, then know that NOW you are about to GROW
Now, this revelation didn’t come to me over night. It is the substance of my own life journey and what has become the call to ministry upon my life. Learn more about my personal testimony at: http://www.aiglinstitute.org/#!blank/c8de
Karen Gaithers-Life Discipleship 