173. How God Uses Broken People: Reframe, Redeem, Restore

03/02/23 • 44 min

You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast

If you feel like you're not good enough to mentor, you're in good company. So many of the Bible's characters had serious character flaws. Peter denied Jesus three times, even after adamantly telling the Lord that he would never do so. Moses was a murderer. David, a man after God's own heart, was a murderer and an adulterer. At the end of the day, we're all broken people; and yet God still can and does use us. Time and time again, both in the Bible and in our current time, God uses the most unlikely people for the greatest impacts. The same holds true for mentoring. You may feel like you're not qualified to mentor, but the truth is none of us are. God still uses us anyways. Zach is back with John this week to talk through lies that mentors believe, and encourage you with the biblical truths that counteract those lies.

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You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the Great Commission, and Break Generational Curses

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172. The Dangers of Distraction

Distraction is all around us. Our phones, social media, television, news outlets....the list goes on and on. Our work productivity suffers and we don't invest our emotional capital into the relationships around us. Our society is centered around instant gratification, and the notifications from our phones constantly pull our attention away from the task at hand. These distractions can, and often do, impact our relationships with our mentees, and that can communicate to them that they aren't a priority in our lives. John is back this week to deliver a word on the dangers of allowing distraction to enter into our mentoring relationships as well as some practicals on how to eliminate distractions while we invest into the lives of our mentees.

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174. Fruit of the Spirit: Love

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8.

There are eight different greek words for love, and we experience each of them in a different way. The greek word for the love God has for us, or the love a parent has for their child, is agape love. It's the unconditional love we receive. It's the love that is still there regardless of how badly we mess up or think we're unlovable. It's the same type of love we strive for in our mentor/mentee relationships. This love is the same love that's mentioned in the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians. John and Zach kick off a new series this week where they explore how we can model the fruit of the spirit in our mentoring relationships, starting with love, and they share some truths around that topic.

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You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the Great Commission, and Break Generational Curses

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You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast - 173. How God Uses Broken People: Reframe, Redeem, Restore

Transcript

Speaker 100:00:02.159

You can mentor is a podcast about the power of building relationships with kids from hard places in the name of Jesus. Every episode will help you overcome common mentoring obstacles and give you the confidence you need to invest in the lives of others. You can mentor.

Speaker 200:00:37.429

Hey, mentors. Just a reminder about the You Can Mentor book. It's titled You Can Mentor, How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill