On Mentoring..

‘Mentoring is the fine art of passing onto others what God has given to you. A mentor provides sculpting, and discipling - developing teachable people, giving modeling, supervision, individual help, discipline, encouragement, correction, confrontation, and a calling to accountability. He/she is genuinely interested in his/her protégé. Mentoring was the chief learning method in the society of artisans where an apprentice spent years at the side of the craftsman; learning not only the mechanics of a function, but the way of life surrounding it. Preaching and acquisition of biblical knowledge, is not enough to develop the sort of Christ-likeness which is a major segment of the Church’s mission inthe world’

– Ted W Engstrom The Fine Art of Mentoring, Wolgemuth & Hyatt publishers.