From one Generation to the Next

Yesterday I was discussing with Tim about mentoring, specifically the 'each one reach one, each one teach one' approach to discipleship. The importance of both being mentored and being one is perhaps highly neglected.
But I read on CJ Mahaneys blog a quote from Joshua Harris about his own experience of CJ as his mentor. This confirmed what Tim and I were discussing to me and drives home the importance of this.
As someone who hasn't really had a mentor (Though several people have spoken into my life) I have to confess that this is something that I myself have often wished for and something that I hope to be, though I'm not exactly sure how to be one.

Check out what Joshua said;

"It was God’s grace that led me to realize as a young man that I needed a mentor to advise and train me in ministry. And it was God’s grace that prepared a godly older man to be that mentor. Two decades earlier, in the early days of his ministry, C.J. had made a promise to God. He had always longed for but never truly found a mentor for himself. And so he told God that if he ever had the chance to be that mentor to a younger man, he wouldn’t pass up the opportunity. He wouldn’t be too busy.

When I came along he didn’t see me as a nuisance. He didn’t see me as a threat. His first concern wasn’t preserving his position. He saw me as a young man in whom he could invest in so that the most important truth—the truth of the Gospel—could be passed on. What a refreshing perspective. Our job isn’t to fend off the next generation. Our calling as lovers of the Gospel is to equip the next generation to surpass us in faithfulness and effectiveness.

Somewhere there’s a young man or woman praying for a mentor. Get ready. You could be God’s answer to that prayer."