Church Forward

Multiplication
through
Mentoring
Ted Johnston
 The way forward is
Jesus’ disciplemaking
strategy:
• Winning the lost to Christ
• Building the believers in their love for Christ
• Equipping the workers to minister with Christ
•Multiplying the shepherd-leaders
who will lead disciplemaking ministry segments and
new congregations (church plants)
…all for Christ’s glory

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 To advance his
disciplemaking mission,
Jesus…
• Focused on multiplying shepherd-
leaders
• Used a ‘life-on-life’ process

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How did Jesus develop
leaders?
• He sought out (recruited)
potential leaders (providing
access)
• He invited them to follow (be
with) him
(providing time)
• He pointed them to a divine
calling to be ‘fishers of men’
(providing vision)
• He shared his life with them—
equipping some to be leaders in
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 Jesus continues this
multiplication through
Ephesians 4:11-13:
the church
It was he [Christ] who gave some to be apostles,
some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and
some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare [equip]
God’s people for works of service [ministry], so
that the body of Christ may be built up until we all
reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the
Son of God and become mature, attaining to the
whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

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 Will we accept our Lord’s
challenge?
• Part of sharing in Christ’s fullness is to be
active workers in his disciplemaking
ministry using the grace-gifts he has given
to us through the Holy Spirit.
• Lead ministry workers
can help other workers
develop and deploy
their gifts—including
the gifts of leadership.

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 In your group
Spend five minutes discussing
what leadership development
looks like now in your ministry
segment or whole congregation.
Pray about steps forward.

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 Jesus and Paul invested their lives in
a few key emerging leaders…
sharing several refreshingly simple
and remarkably profound principles
for developing leaders:
• In the midst of doing ministry
• In pursuit of an earthshaking mission
• With a focus on godly character
• In the context of a small team
• With time for reflection
• Over a long period of time
• With a greater concern for faithfulness
and obedience than for knowledge and 8
Leadership multiplication
must be intentional
• As we focus on building
believers and equipping
workers, opportunities to
multiply leaders will ‘bubble up’
as a bi-product in a ‘life-on-
life’ process.
• But we must move from
accidental addition to
intentional multiplication (of
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Intentional multiplication
happens through life-on-
life mentoring
Mentoring is an intentional and
sustained life-on-life relationship
with defined outcomes
It involves a mentor who is an
experienced, trusted and
available
counselor/teacher/coach
And a mentee
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Mentoring is a process

3. Deep, familial
love
growing in the fullness

Leadership
Spiritual Maturity –

Community
Mentoring in
of Christ

2. Friendship
Ministry

CPR
1. Acquaintance

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15 characteristics of
an effective
mentor
1.Love for God and for people. At its
core, leadership is influence. Godly
influence doesn’t arise from titles; it
flows from intimacy with God and
with people.
2. Passion for Jesus’ disciplemaking
mission which includes multiplying
shepherd leaders.
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3. Credibility (fruit on the tree)

4. The ability to model and instruct

5. The desire to invest in the life of

the mentee

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6. A good listener
• To God
• To the mentee:
• “To the Jew I became as a Jew…
to the Greek I became as a
Greek”
• Understand where they
are coming from
• Listen to their language
• Speak their language
• Connect
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7. An encourager
8. Humble
9. Able and willing
to lovingly confront

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10. Able to create an
environment where
the mentee
can apply
what is being learned
11. Able to serve as
an advisor
12. Willing to be accountable:
• To the Holy Spirit
• To the mission
• To the mentor’s supervisor
• To the mentee 16
13. Able to keep confidences

14. Willingness to be available

15. Commitment to point to Jesus…
not self

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7 characteristics of a
receptive mentee
(protégé/apprentice)
1. Faithful
2. Available
3. Teachable
4. Enthusiastic
5. Accountable
6. Willing to sacrifice
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 4 characteristics of an
effective mentoring
relationship
1. Bathed in prayer
2. About a relationship, not a program
3. Planned, yet spontaneous
(‘chaortic’)
4. Focused on helping the
mentee identify and then
bridge
competency gaps in:
*knowledge
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