This topic is intended as a starter conversation. It describes how to use the tools at pursueGOD.org for one-on-one or group mentoring. This topic is adapted from the PursueGOD Video YouTube channel. Learn more about mentoring at pursueGOD.org/mentor.
Ready to start investigating the Christian faith or deepening your knowledge of the Bible? The resources at pursueGOD.org are designed to help you do it. The method is simple: (1) Find a topic, (2) Learn about it on your own, and (3) Explore it with a group or friend through conversation.
[Related: The FLEX Method for Disciple-Making]
How to Pick Your Topics
Picking your first topic of conversation is key to establishing a mutually beneficial mentoring relationship. Choose anything that you find interesting in the life or faith sections. We recommend having the mentor choose the first few topics. After that, take turns choosing topics or try a series from one of our starter pages.
Truth + Relationships
Mentoring is not just about information, though, but about building relationships. Mentors commit to pray and encourage those they are mentoring. The mentoring relationship needs to be built on trust – both being trustworthy and expressing trust as the mentor and the mentee. You need to be open with one another and committed to the process of mentoring. The discussion questions will help you have fruitful conversations.
The Goal
The goal is to get people to go “full circle.” This “circle” demonstrates what the Christian life should look like. Every Christian life starts by trusting Jesus. We live to honor God. We grow by helping others pursue God either for the first time as non-believers or more deeply as committed followers of Jesus.
[Related: 4 Stages of Biblical Mentoring]
[Related Series: Mentor Training]
Written content for this topic by Daniel Martin.
Discussion Questions:
- Watch the video together or invite someone to summarize the topic.
- What is your initial reaction to this video? Do you disagree with any of it? What jumped out at you?
- What’s a good introductory topic for a mentoring relationship or potential mentoring relationship in your life? Why would such a topic be relevant to that relationship?
- Why do you think mentoring works best within the confines of both truth and relationship?
- Why must there be trust in a mentoring relationship? What would it look like to be trustworthy in a mentoring relationship? What would it look like to express trust? Explain.
- What does it mean to go “full circle?” What does it mean to trust Jesus, to honor God, and to help others pursue God?
- Write a personal action step based on this conversation.