Mentoring Matters - Alabama coach Nick Saban is undoubtedly the most successful football coach in the college game today. Consequently, when schools find themselves searching for a head coach to guide their program, they often try to lure one of his assistants or someone that had coached with him at an earlier stop to take the job. Someone from the “Saban coaching tree” so to speak. The same is true of Pat Summit in women’s basketball. Folks that have either played for her or coached under her dot the women’s college basketball landscape by the dozens. Why is that the case? Because college athletic directors and administrators make the assumption, and rightfully so, that folks under their influence have been mentored well by someone that has obviously mastered the art of coaching. Mentoring is one of the terms abuzz in the business world also as corporations try to reproduce their concepts or methods as rapidly and effectively as possible with a one to one approach. However, mentoring is certainly nothing new. It dates back to the scripture, as we’ll see this coming Sunday, and not just by the apostle Paul. Abraham, Joseph, Eli, Elijah, David, Solomon, John the Baptist, Jesus, and most of the apostles all mentored others, some for a season, some for a lifetime. If there is this thread of mentoring weaving its way all throughout scripture, and throughout Christian history, do you think it’s something we should pay attention to for ourselves today? Well, the obvious answer is yes, absolutely! But how do we go about doing that? Do we need to mentor or be the one mentored? How do we know what to look for in a mentor? Good questions that scripture answers for us from 1st Thessalonians 2 on Sunday. Come and see.
Posted on: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 20:37:08 +0000
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