I’ve never considered myself a mentor before. Maybe I should start considering myself one, as I do really enjoy teaching and training, but I’ve never actually thought of myself like that before. I’m too young, I’m not educated enough, blah blah blah. But, in reality, whenever you are able to teach someone just a little bit of something and continue teaching on it, even just a little bit, you are a mentor.
My pastor honored me be actually calling me his “blogging mentor.” Pretty cool that even though it might be slightly in jest, he views even small tips about blogging as being mentored for him. Thanks, Wade.
In the meantime, you should check out his very touching story about his relationship with his high school math teacher. It’s a bit of a long read, but well worth it.
Coming tomorrow, a LONG overdue review of Craig Groeschel’s newest book, “Going All the Way.”
I usually don’t post twice in one day but our pastor has just started a blog series that I think will be very beneficial for believers to read. I blogged last weak on the importance of knowing how to defend what we believe. This is what Wade is going to be diving into this week. Check out the first post here.
We started going through Focus on the Family’s “The Truth Project” on Sunday night with a small group from our church and boy was it amazing. Just from the first lesson on “What is Truth” I know that this will be a highly intellectual and thought-provoking study. I was also able to meet some new people and am looking forward to getting to know them better.
I find it more than a little sad that so many Christians will defend their faith with, “Well, I believe it because the Bible says so, so that’s that.” While this is completely true and I agree that the Bible is the absolute sole authority on anything and everything, how does a defense like that stand with someone who doesn’t believe that any of the Bible is true? It doesn’t work. We need to be able to think and think well. We need to understand philosophy, history, ethics, anthropology, science and more. We don’t need to be experts in all of these things, but we need to at least have a grasp on them so that we can make clearer cases for our faith to people who trust in all these fields but have no trust in the Bible. I think “The Truth Project” will be doing just that.
In light of today being Darwin Day (ack - how in the world did we ever come to this??), it’s really good for us to know exactly what we believe and how to defend it intelligently. In light of worship ministry, we need to know why in the world we worship God as well. Yes, the Bible tells us to worship Him, but we need to understand why in order to have more intimate times of worship with Him.
Do you really believe that what you believe is really real?
