Does the prospect of mentoring sound overwhelming or too challenging or even plain old “scary?” I’ve done it for years and have learned to enjoy it and celebrate the work the Lord does through it. I’ve even found approaches that help in different mentoring situations. It’s a bonus that God’s word commands us (older women) to do this:
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. (Titus 2:3-5 ESV)
Since 2018 I’ve sent out a weekly newsletter titled, “The Mentoring Minute.” In it, I have pulled topics from my book, “Intentional Influence, A Woman’s Guide to Biblical Mentoring,” and put them into a short blog form. (You can sign up for that here: www.bethbingaman.com).
My purpose has been to encourage “older” (we’re all older than someone, right?) Christian women to enjoy the blessings of doing what God commands in “teaching and training” the younger women in the Church of Jesus Christ to think and live biblically. (Oh, yeah, and to encourage like-minded women to buy my book.)
But am I missing something? Like: What do you want to know? After all, the goal of the blog is to encourage and help you.
So, this is my invitation to those who read this. Please send me your questions about mentoring or situations you’ve encountered in mentoring others. From getting started to sticky mentoring circumstances, certainly you’ve encountered twists and turns that aren’t addressed in my book. I would be pleased to respond to your questions and happy to look with you at scriptures that point to godly solutions.
I am looking forward to hearing from you. You may leave me a question in the comments section below, message me on Facebook messenger, or use the “Contact” page on my website (https://www.bethbingaman.com/contact/)
Beth,
Since you suggest that the Future of Christendom site has “great biblical content,” can you help me comprehend why, when one has a question concerning that great biblical content, one never receives a response, let alone an answer to one’s question?
For instance, Luke Saint wrote a piece entitled Serving as a Theonomic Magistrate in a Statist System, asked the following question:
Can a Christian, steadfast in Lancastrian theonomy, SERVE as a magistrate in a system opposed to Christ?
Luke answered his question by writing, “I believe he can, IF he will follow justice and only justice.”
About the oath the Christian theonomist must take to enter the secular civil office of magistrate, Luke suggests, “The [Christian] civil magistrate, though he SWEARS AN OATH OF LOYALTY TO MAN’S LAW, must remember that a higher law, a perfect law, sits in judgment of his decisions.
I wonder if Luke believes God’s Law might sit in judgment of the Christian campaigning for the civil office of magistrate and SWEARING AN OATH of loyalty to man’s law in the first place.
I have inquired of Joel Saint. I ask him to share the biblical basis of God’s people campaigning for the civil office of civil magistrate and SWEARING AN OATH of allegiance and fidelity to enforce the civil or municipal laws that pertain to secular citizens.
As usual, the Future of Christendom writers do not have time to respond and provide the biblical basis of God’s people SWEARING AN OATH of loyalty to man’s civil or municipal laws and then violating that oath when they believe man’s law is in conflict with God’s law.
Beth, are God’s people to campaign for the office of civil magistrates and SWEAR AN OATH to uphold the civil man-made laws and then violate their oath of office?
Are God’s people to SWEAR OATHS of allegiance to secular governments?
If Luke were elected civil magistrate, he would have to SWEAR AN OATH before entering the office of civil magistrate. Are God’s people to judge and condemn others for violating man’s law? Isn’t our job to proclaim the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and call all men to repent and to be reconciled to God?
Beth, not many should be teachers, and I am not a teacher. Are we not taught to test the spirits to see if they are from God? Aren’t those who have assumed the biblical office of teachers required to answer questions asked by those they are teaching?
Beth, you either STAND with both feet firmly planted in the Kingdom of Heaven or with both feet firmly planted in some worldly secular form of government. You cannot sit on the fence or with one foot in the Kingdom of Heaven and one foot in some worldly secular country.
What does the command “Come ye out and be separate from the unclean thing” mean to you?
To me, it means to be 100% out of the world as a consenting citizen/member thereof and 100% in the Kingdom of Heaven as a citizen/member thereof serving King Jesus as His ambassadors to the pagan nations of people.
We are sojourning strangers in the United States of American. We are ambassadors to the pagan nations of people from the Kingdom of Heaven. Ambassadors do not accept the grant of Amendment 14 federal citizenship in a secular country to which they are sent to be ambassadors from a foreign heavenly country and King.
There is a Maxim of Law that goes, “Silence shows consent.” Does the silence from the Future of Christendom writers show their consent that they agree with my position that God’s people cannot SERVE two sovereigns and certainly not SWEAR AN OATH of loyalty to man’s law and then violate that sacred oath?
Our God will not allow me to GIVE UP on the Lancastrian theonomists. I have asked God why I should spend so much of my time corresponding with the Lancastrian theonomist when experience tells me there will be no answers forthcoming from them. For some reason, I can’t give up.
I believe God will eventually move them to respond and honestly answer my questions submitted to them in good faith. I believe God is ashamed of being called our God when we fail to answer questions about the faith that we claim to have in King Jesus, and our being citizens/members of the Kingdom of Heaven, owing our absolute allegiance, fidelity, and obedience to King Jesus.
Beth, will you or your husband share the biblical basis to justify God’s people SWEARING AN OATH of loyalty to man’s laws, when keeping that OATH “in some cases” is an OATH to commit injustice, as Luke admits?
Peace,
by: Harry-James – Ambassador for King Jesus