Personal Growth through Mentoring
Mentoring Phases
As your mentoring group meets, begin to go through each phase consecutively. As you add another person to your mentoring group, no matter where you are, restart with phase 1. You will cycle through these phases many times, but it never gets boring, because each time another life is changing. When your mentoring group gets to 4 people, begin to plan to multiply into 2 groups. When you have 5 people consistently coming to your mentoring group, multiply into two new groups. At first the idea of multiplying feels like dividing, but it is essential to stay at 5 people or below to keep the micro-group dynamic going. Beyond five people it is not practical to keep customized growth plans for everyone in the group. But don’t stress, there are still plenty of ways to get together to keep your friends close. Prayer meetings, house churches, and ministry times can keep you all together and growing.
PHASE 1
The Foundations of Christianity
Go through the 8-lesson series, “The Foundations of Christianity”.
Before accepting the challenge, it is important that you are in agreement with some basics of following Jesus. There are so many churches teaching so many doctrines that are not in line with clear biblical teaching, that we ask everyone - from new seeker to long-time Christian leader - to go over these 8 foundational lessons. It is also important that this is not just knowing these principles, but actually living them out. We don’t want to reproduce a watered-down discipleship or replicate or promote false doctrine. After going through these lessons, if you are in agreement, and are willing to live and teach these foundations to others, you are ready to take the Ultimate Impact Challenge!
PHASE 2
The First 40 Days of Impact
Go through a 40-day curriculum designed as daily devotionals which include a weekly lesson to go through with your mentoring group.
If you are already in your mentoring group, and they already have a copy of the “First 40 Days” material, you can get a digital or hard copy from them. If not, just email us from the contact page and let us know you have taken the Ultimate Impact Challenge and we will send you the material. This material helps you to take some practical steps, such as beginning to pray for others in your sphere of influence, learning and utilizing your spiritual gifts, discovering a more customized ministry path, and learning to share your testimony. It also builds a philosophy to live your life by in which mentoring, fellowship, encouragement, equipping and training can happen to make you more fruitful as a disciple of Jesus,
PHASE 3
The People are the Curriculum
Now you are well grounded and living the Kingdom Life with support from your mentoring group.
Each person in the group is asking God to lead them into their next steps to get closer to God and how to be more fruitful. We each support the others in the group with their next steps even though ours may (and probably will be) different. We call this phase “The People are the Curriculum”. It is as adaptable as your mentoring group needs it to be. Maybe you are needing to shore up some new spiritual habits in your life or finish getting rid of some old ones. Your group will support you in this. Maybe you are ready to be more bold and “take the gospel to the streets”. Maybe you need to build some skill sets into your life that will help you with things like financial management or people skills, Whatever your next steps are, this is the time to take them to move into deeper discipleship and greater fruitfulness. As our network grows, we will provide more resources to help you, so visit our site often and check out new videos on our YouTube page.
