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The thing that is missing in a lot of young men's lives is positive mentorship.

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Hey, welcome to the Stand Up Dude podcast.

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I'm one of your hosts, Stewart White, along with our host Tim.

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Tim, I just want to jump right into this because I feel like this is something on my heart

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that I want to talk about.

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And it is the power of mentorship.

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Some in the Christian circles will know it as discipleship, but as the world would understand

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it in a way that they can understand, we're talking about it as mentorship.

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And I feel like right now in the world, the thing that is missing in a lot of young men's

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lives is positive mentorship.

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Most men are being mentored, but they're just being mentored in a way that is not steering

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them toward Christ.

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It's not steering them toward truth, and it's not pointing them toward something bigger

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than their own pleasure, their own satisfaction and living for themselves.

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So I want to dig into that a little bit because I think that many guys out there, many who

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It's really, really cool to have you.

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What I want to do is if we could pull up and Titus chapter 2, we see this model that Paul

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gives us and to Titus.

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He talks about mentorship, really, discipleship, that we're to have both older women influencing

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younger women, we're to have older men influencing and training up younger men.

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As I've been thinking about this, I think culturally, the big shift has been that, and I

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would say we saw this in probably what would be the baby boom era on with the hippie

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era and everything.

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It was sort of a loss of respect for those who are older than you.

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Interesting.

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Instead of viewing it as, hey, that guy is where I want to be.

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We talked about this on an earlier episode with Jason Cruz.

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You haven't listened or watched that episode.

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Go back and watch it.

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Yeah.

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He's awesome.

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We've lost the reverence and respect for the experience that someone who is ahead of

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us in life has.

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And it's just this weird arrogance that we had.

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In Titus, we see that Paul is telling him, hey, make sure that the young men are being

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trained up by the older men and the older women are training up the younger women.

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They're teaching them not just like life skills, but actual spiritual maturity and godliness.

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I think a good way to illustrate this.

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I'm going to be talking a lot here.

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I love it.

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If you don't want me to talk, just leave a comment below.

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You got a computer please.

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Tell me I got a shut up.

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So my own experience with mentorship in my life was from people who, I don't even think

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they were fully aware that they were mentoring me.

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And I shared this a bit with Jason when he was here.

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But I had a couple in my life who I looked to as a couple whose marriage I wanted to emulate.

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And it wasn't because they were perfect.

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It wasn't because they never fought, but I observed the way they fought.

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You said they fought differently.

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They fought differently.

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They weren't in it for their own.

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I want to beat you and I want to win.

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It was winning.

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It was, there was a humility in it.

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And it's not to say I never saw them like sin in some way, but what I really saw was just

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this grace in the way that they lived their lives.

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And I was like, you know what?

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That looks like a lot more fun than what other things I've seen in other marriages modeled,

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which was battle, battle all the time.

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It was your will versus my will and I'm going to get my way.

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And usually one person always comes out the victor and that was not attractive.

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In their case, it was.

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And then they ended up also demonstrating just this love of Christ and everything that they

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So for my young 13-ish-year-old perspective that I had at the time, I said, I'm going to

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just watch them.

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I don't know why.

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I feel like I'd put that on my heart.

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I'm going to watch them.

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So little did they know they were mentoring me.

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Yeah, you're watching.

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And I was watching them.

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But I so cool.

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I wonder had I not had that, I think, God-given moment of clarity to think, oh, I want to be

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a husband and I want to be a father someday.

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Well, I want to be a good husband and a good father and an effective husband.

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So I started to go, well, who can I see that's doing that?

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And they were a couple and that man, his name's Doug.

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Doug, if you're watching or listening, hey, thanks, Doug.

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No, really?

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He had a huge impact on me.

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And I think what we see now today is this like, shunning of being impacted by anyone older

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than you.

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If you're older, you're dumb.

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If you're an elderly person or even a father figure in someone's life, you're a, you know,

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you're so cool.

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I am.

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You're a square.

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Nobody uses that term, but hey, I just don't know how old I am.

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It's something that I've seen as well and I love that you're thrown a net out there with

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that thought that I've had because I'm like, gosh, you're so right.

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That thing is there.

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And as soon as you mention it, I'm like, do I do that?

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Yes, sometimes.

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But overall, if I really just be honest, just I'm assessing it, it has gotten worse over

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time.

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Usually when you're, you know, 18, 28, you don't know what you don't know yet.

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You're watching other men and thinking, oh, they're kind of, they don't, what got it going

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on right?

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You know, this and that.

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But man, those thoughts were minimal compared to when you saw a man that was modeling grace

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and humility and honor.

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You started to notice and you wanted to get to know them.

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You wanted to be around them.

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That happened to a pretty good amount.

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Yeah.

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But one little quick point because I want to hear you, man, absolutely.

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But when I moved here from Houston, I did not realize I was surrounded in Houston where

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my dad was the pastor at first bed, his church by so many amazing men.

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And then I moved here to pastor a much, much, much smaller church.

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And I realized that those men were not in my life anymore and how greatly I miss them

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and what a, what a privilege that I had.

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And I didn't even know it by the men that I was surrounded with in Houston.

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So just a quick challenge to you guys.

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You may be surrounded by more godly, wonderful men than you might know.

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We'll go with what Stuart's getting right to say is you probably want to surround yourself

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and to begin to what he used watch.

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Well, so what we know is there is this huge gap right now, I think, in our culture.

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And it's somewhat of what I described.

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It's in our churches too.

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It's so funny because just earlier today while I was preparing for the podcast, I

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listened to two different podcasts.

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One was Owen Strand and he was talking about raising masculine boys and feminine girls

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and from a biblical perspective.

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And it was so good, so well handled.

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He made these great distinctions and things in it.

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And then I came across this Paul Washer sermon where he's in a loving, gentle yet very firm

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way.

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He's more of a reformed guy if you don't know what reform theology is, don't worry about

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it.

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But he's speaking to a group of people and in the reformed church community, and a lot

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of them now, it's become popular to say, oh, we don't do youth group.

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We don't do children's church.

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We just have them all in the service.

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And get what they're saying with that.

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But he is like, hey, hold on.

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He was like, hey, but what are they doing in that time?

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Because he said, most of your sermons, I hear you guys preaching.

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The adults don't understand what you're saying.

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So how much do you think the kids are getting out of that?

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And his point wasn't that you shouldn't have them in the church.

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Right.

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But that you need to have an intentional way of communicating to a younger generation in

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a way they can understand.

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And really, it's like you wouldn't go to Africa or to some African country.

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And let's say you gone to or somewhere and try to go out and speak to the tribes in

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English, if they don't speak English, right?

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You would learn the language.

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Learn language.

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Learn how to speak to them.

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Well, in the same way, I think even though we're speaking the same language, although if you

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hear a lot of kids today, there's, there is slang that I'm just like what is going on.

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Yeah, I got it.

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I'm old.

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I got a 22 and a 25 year old.

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And I love, I love learning the, the new thing.

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Yeah, just little things.

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It makes it so crazy.

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We had a 17 year old foster daughter a few years ago.

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Still she calls us mom and dad to this day.

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She just had a baby.

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And she introduced us to all kinds of slang where I was like, what, what are you saying?

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Bet what, what does that, what do you mean?

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I love it.

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I love that kind of stuff.

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But to bring it back around here, we have this gap in the churches in young and old people.

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We have a need for mentors and we have a need for mentees.

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And that can be both in a like official kind of way and that could also be in a way where

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you just happen to be hanging out with people.

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So I think the big thing is, first of all, knowing the characteristics to look for.

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If you're a young person and you're like, hey, I want to be mentored, you can go right

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up to somebody and ask them.

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A lot of older guys are probably going to go, I don't know.

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I know for me personally, I had a discipleship thing when I was in my mid 20s that this

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mom asked me to disciple her teenage son.

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I had no idea what I was doing.

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I was, I was a moron.

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But you tried.

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Oh, but I tried.

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Exactly.

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And the thing was, is like, I had not had necessarily the best official discipleship model

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for me.

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So I didn't know what I was doing.

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Now I feel like it'd be a big difference in the way things go.

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So I think though that we need to know how to look for a good mentor or how to be a good

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mentor.

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And if you're a man of an age that is older and further along in life than a younger man,

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be looking for those opportunities for that guy who you're like, you know, I feel drawn

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in my heart.

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Yeah, man.

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You out.

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Yeah, it's super cool.

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I feel a heart for where you are because I wish someone had come along for me.

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And maybe that's really the indicator.

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How do you know that you're supposed to mentor somebody?

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Yeah.

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And knowing that you see in them something that you wish you had had at that point, it

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isn't that like I thought when I was 25 that, oh, I have to have arrived at some spiritual

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and emotional maturity level in order to be able to do this.

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And then there's the truth to that.

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But I wanted to just then start something here about this that if you have it in your heart,

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maybe God's brought something to your mind of a young man that you're like, you know,

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I got a connection at you, man, I don't exactly understand it, but I feel like I'm supposed

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to reach out and see how I can help him.

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Dude, boom, solid.

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Just that's good enough.

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Please don't let the enemy come in and steal that beautiful whisper that God has put in

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your heart because you think you're not wise enough, not spiritual enough, not good enough

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because the losses may speak louder than the wins because so often these young men don't

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hear about the losses directly from the person that lost.

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It's just all in the rumors, but to hear that honesty and that vulnerability of here's

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what happened, man, and here's what I learned.

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And if I could do it again, this is exactly how it would be different.

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That's a great message to a young man.

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You look at Proverbs and most of it is Solomon, right?

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And he's writing and it's writing to his son and a lot of it.

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He's like, my son, don't do this, do this.

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He's like, I love that.

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Learn from me.

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Look at Ecclesiastes.

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He says, I tried everything.

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I did it all.

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He probably was the most experimental person in his entire life on his life than anyone he's

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I mean, that's saying a lot, you know?

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I love what you just said, by the way, don't do this, but yet do this because we grow up

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in church about, don't do this, this, this, this, this, and this.

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And I love it when don't do this.

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Instead, do this.

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I love that.

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The scripture is full of beautiful stories and examples of that.

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That wisdom literature is so powerful.

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We talked a little bit about what to look for in a mentor.

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How to be a good mentee, too.

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I think the biggest thing I think for that is humility.

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I know what it's like to think, no, no, no, I got this.

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I got this.

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I, we've talked about my seven year old son, who I love to death.

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He's my only son.

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And I always tell him he's my favorite son.

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Yes.

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He's amazing.

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He's so funny.

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He was telling me how to bold the other night.

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And I don't know if he's ever bold, but he was telling me the statistics of how this should

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happen.

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And exactly what he did.

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He's just making it up on the spot.

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Oh, but it was very convincing.

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He was going to do a lot.

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He's very, if we just hone those facts.

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What did you say he's very convincing, very convincing, very persuasive.

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No, he's confident.

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Confidence.

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Oh my gosh.

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This boy is not like confidence in a good way.

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I like it.

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But what I've seen is sometimes he'll come to me and he'll be like, Dad, no, no, no,

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I, you're doing it wrong.

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I know, I know dad way and he doesn't know.

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It's my job as his father and ultimately mentor and disciple or to go son.

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I know you think you know, but you're wrong, but dude in a loving way.

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That's beautiful.

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I saw you do that on Friday night about.

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It's confident.

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He was explaining drunkenness and you're like, he was making a joke about drinking and I was

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like, you know, it's really not, it's not funny, right?

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And a lot of people can't and he was like, oh, he just thinks it's funny.

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And he's seven, you know, so, but he, he receives it well, even in his confidence, he will

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be like, okay, oh, yeah, okay, dad.

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And so what I can say is as a person who needs a meant to be the mentee, you need to be humble

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enough to receive correction and to receive, improve and guidance.

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So those are the things in that mentor, you know, looking for that mentor, there's that

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saying when the student is ready, the master will appear.

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Very cool.

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You know, it's like a eastern type of wisdom or whatever.

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But I think the greater idea behind it is you'll, you'll be amazed at how soon when you're

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ready to learn that there's somebody ready to teach you.

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Super cool.

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So be looking for that.

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Be looking for people in your life or that you come into contact with who we said it

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in the last interview that we did with Jason, you said in AA, you go, I want to exhibit

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that character.

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Yeah.

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When you're looking for a sponsor in this, in this setting, a mentor in AA,

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when you're looking for a sponsor, when you first come in, they tell you to look for someone

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that has something that you want.

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And that can be character, that can be truthfulness, that can be stability, that can be just

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that he's calm with his words and succinct and beautiful like man, I want that.

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I think a big thing is recognizing Jesus exhibited discipleship, the ultimate form of mentorship

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truly, because it's not just like you can have a mentor or like someone who teaches you

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to play guitar or something.

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But to have someone who teaches you how to live skillfully, how to live successfully,

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how to love well, how to repent.

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You know, those are the things that you need as a man growing up in this world and there

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aren't always the greatest examples around, especially in our culture, but finding places

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to find mentors and to be a mentor, I would say your local church.

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That is something find a good, solid Bible teaching Christ following church.

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Yeah.

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There's a, you, we got a good link on the stand up dude website as well.

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Yeah.

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There's amazing resources there.

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But even your workplace, be looking for people because what is really wild is when you as

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a believer have influence on people who are not and you may not realize it.

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Just like I didn't realize that Doug, or that Doug rather didn't realize that he was influencing

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me in tremendous ways.

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You may not realize that the people you're working with look at you and go, there's something

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different.

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That happened to me in my past career working in tech.

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I had people tell me later on and I'm like, I barely knew this person.

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But they're like, yeah, there's just something different about you.

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I was like, praise the Lord because I, some days I didn't feel like there was anything

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different about me.

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Oh, yeah, there's days like that for sure.

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But so other things that you can be doing, just looking in your community as you're going

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out as you're bumping into people.

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I would say use wisdom.

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Don't, it just in the same way you wouldn't go out and marry someone or call them your

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best friend day one usually.

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Don't just go right up to the first person you meet at the park and say, hey, be my mentor.

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And if you're that guy who's going around doing that, you're probably not a great mentor.

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If you're the one saying, hey, I'm going to mentor you.

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It's probably maybe rushing.

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Yeah, it's interesting.

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I might die always just to say the people that he would ask to be deacons in his church

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where the people that weren't seeking to be deacons.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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There's something very, I totally understand that.

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There's something about when somebody is seeking that that it's like, uh, uh, yeah, it gives

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you that you keep feeling.

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But we're not talking about you if you're wanting to be mentor now that's, that's a different,

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totally different, very different.

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So a few things to keep in mind, there's time constraints.

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You know, people have jobs, they have lives, they have families.

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So when you're doing this, both sides, be aware of the time constraints.

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And also, I understand people are going to have.

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They're going to have a year and vulnerability in things.

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And you need to recognize when they're comfortable, when it's appropriate to push and when

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it's necessary to restrain yourself and give it time.

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And a lot of us are talking about mentoring or being a mentoring.

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Both sides of that, I would say as the mentor, it may be your job to push in a little bit,

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but just like a doctor checking your appendix or something, they're still doing it in a way

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that's delicate enough.

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It's like, okay, I found it, but I'm not going to just keep pushing on that and make it

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worse.

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That's good.

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So be aware of that.

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But as a person who's being mentored or the mentee, also be aware that sometimes what's

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uncomfortable, what somebody is doing when they're pushing is not to hurt you, it's to help

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you.

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So you do have to operate in discernment there and understand that.

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So I want to wrap all this up and just say, if you are looking for that person, let

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us know because we have the resources at standupdo.com.

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Absolutely, man.

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And we also may know of people in your area, churches and ministries that are going on that

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would be amazing and help you a ton.

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As a matter of fact, if any of those leaders are out there that are interested in us meeting

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and getting to know you as we can recommend you, please reach out.

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The email is podcast@standupdo.com.

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Yep, we'd love that.

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Okay.

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Because we'd love to have references all over the country to send mentees.

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All right.

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Well, so Tim, would you close us in prayer and just invite anybody listening who's maybe

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not aware of how the root problem, the root source of discipleship, where that comes

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from is in being a disciple of Jesus.

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Yeah.

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So we want you to know Jesus, we want you to meet Him, to be changed and transformed

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and have that exchange that happens when you come to Him.

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You give Him all of your sin He takes and gives you all of His righteousness.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Thank you.

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As you know, we've spoken of being a mentor.

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Our greatest mentor that we have, there's a couple that are the greatest.

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The Holy Spirit is your guide, your protector, the voice of truth in your heart and your

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life.

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He will give you the eyes to see as situations that you can also see truth from.

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So the Holy Spirit will guide you and be your mentor.

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Number two is God's Word.

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Equally.

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It's hard to put one at the top, but equally is God's Word.

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His Word is truth.

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It's inspired.

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It's right from A to Z.

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And for you to know that you're being mentored without being in the Word is a bit of a

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miss.

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So you want to also be able to run through your mentors wisdom and check it also with God's

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Word.

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If you're out of character with God's Word, then it's not good advice.

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So you need to have that balance.

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So the Holy Spirit again will give you that.

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So I'm going to pray with you.

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If you don't know Jesus, what happens when you invite Jesus into your life is you also

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receive the Holy Spirit.

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And because we've spoken so much of the Holy Spirit, it's a miss to leave this podcast

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without knowing Jesus.

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You can have that ultimate mentor in your life.

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So let's pray.

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Lord Jesus, I would ask Father that the young man, the middle aged man, the older man, Lord

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that don't know you would humble their hearts, Lord.

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And just say your favorite words, Jesus.

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I need you.

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Then if you know that you need Jesus, just tell him that now that position of the humility

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of your heart, you can thank him for dying on the cross for you before you were forgiven.

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But now you can ask him to forgive you again, the spirit of humility to please forgive

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me, say, dear Jesus, please forgive me of the sins that I've done against you.

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I put those at the foot of the cross, Jesus.

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And I look to you and I say thank you.

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I humbly receive you as the boss, the guide, the God of my life.

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And Jesus, thank you for not just staying on the cross, but for dying for me.

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And for rising again, and I accept your new life into me right now.

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Father, I would ask Jesus you would fill them with the beautifulness of your Holy Spirit

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by the presence of Jesus in their life.

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They would be their mentor.

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They would draw them to your Word.

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They would draw them to your heart.

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They would draw them to the Father heart of God.

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She would fill them Jesus with your Holy Spirit that their walk would completely change from

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this day forward.

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That you give them an insatiable desire for your Word and for truth and to be the man that

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you have created them to be.

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In Jesus name, I pray, amen.

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Amen.

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Thank you, Tim.

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I really appreciate that.

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And if you prayed that prayer, we would love to hear from you podcast at standupdo.com.

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You can email us there.

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You can also go on our website at the podcast page.

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If it's something that you are comfortable, you can let us know.

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We may actually feature you on a future episode of standupdo.com and discuss that.

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And we are going to just keep on growing this thing and doing our thing.

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So, but thank you guys so much for watching, for listening, and tuning next time to stand

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