I almost always find myself leading. This scares me a little bit because I don’t always know what I am doing. I have joined Bible studies to participate and found myself leading them. I volunteered once to help with Youth Ministry and next thing I knew, I was the Youth Director. I had guys in college who were trying to be a mentor to me ask me to switch roles with them so that I could mentor them. I naturally find myself willing to lead in almost everything that I do.
At times, this seemed really cool, but I have a major problem with it. Besides Jesus, I don’t have anyone committed to investing directly in me. I have had mentors who were doing a great job, but then something prevented us from continuing with the mentoring relationship. I read blogs and soak up as much as I can from people who are willing to share there lives on the Internet, but it is not the same as them knowing who I am and how to invest in my individual gifting.
So I am looking for a mentor of sorts. (Where is my Mr. Miyagi?) A one to one discipleship kind of thing. I am looking for someone to use their years of experience and wisdom to invest in me. Someone who sees the potential in me and wants to encourage and help build me up into what could be. I very much dislike asking people to invest in me because most people who I think would make good mentors are already super busy people. I promise to respect your time because I know how valuable that time is. I am cool with using Internet technologies to connect, but would also like to have the opportunity to spend some time in person. And I realize that this could take time to establish the relationship required for this to work.
If you are interested, you can contact me any any number of ways. You can comment on this blog with your email address. You can email me directly at chris@churchpunk.com. You can find me on Twitter @churchpunk. I am also on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/churchpunk.
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Holy cow..this is so crazy. I am totally in the same boat and just wrote about this about a year ago.
I always find myself being the mentor when right now I could totally use one. I am fighting a ton of things right now career wise, spiritually and mentally and would love to just talk to someone. And then, I find myself when I meet with someone, providing my expertise which is usually worth about 2 cents
The challenge I face is that I travel a ton and cannot get involved in small groups which usually lead to finding folks like this.
Let me know how your search goes…might have to copy your formula!
Joseph, you just helped me with a CRAZY idea. Friends Inc. here we come. More later.