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/)
