AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN

•    combination of factors contributed to risky collision
•    Hendricks: like trying to make it on your own
•    Wesley: no solitary religion -- love one another

MENTORING IN SCRIPTURE

•    helping / empowering another by sharing resources, advice
•    Moses & Joshua: partnering in battle, worship, responsibility
•    Deborah & Barak: how not to be a wimp
•    David & Jonathan: supplies, friendship, loyalty
•    Elijah & Elisha: passing the mantle; refusing to leave
•    Elizabeth & Mary: recognizing identity, blessing, safe haven
•    Jesus & inner circle: intervention, transfiguration, intercession, “being with”
•    Priscilla / Aquila & Apollos: inviting home, explaining God’s way
•    iron sharpens iron; older train younger; set example of integrity and self-control

CASE STUDY: ONESIPHORUS / PAUL / TIMOTHY

•    Onesiphorus & Paul: refreshed, solidarity, put self out, helped
•    Paul & Timothy: affection, exhortation, death-defying, lasting legacy: life-on-life

COMPETING FOR THE PRIZE

•    good soldier values pleasing commanding officer: not civilian affairs
•    athlete values victor’s crown: no short-cuts
•    farmer values share of crops: works hard
•    Paul values salvation / glory for elect: endures everything

MORE THAN A MENTOR

•    couple involved grad student in ministry to others: discipling