Mentoring Strategy: ten elements in a mentoring strategy that has full integration into the fellowship of the church as its goal.

On page two of the PDF: Important things to remember before each mentoring meeting.

For each step in the mentoring process, links are provided to related BcResources and to those available for download or purchase ($) from NavPress and Amazon.

10-Step Mentoring Strategy

1. Assurances and the enemy:
   Beginning with Christ
   • Navigators’ Beginning with Christ packet and verses ($; also via Amazon)
   • Navigator’s The Wheel (i.e., the basic Christian life; free)
2. Getting into the Word of God:
   Studying the Bible
   • BcR’s Study Blank for a Passage (free PDF)
   • Navigator’s Word Hand Illustration (free; also as PDF)
   • Navigator’s Topical Memory System ($; also via Amazon)
   • A neutral place, set time, consistency
3. Talking to God:
   The Devotional Life
   • Prayer; Journal
   • Five steps: (1) Wake up; (2) Settle down; (3) Draw near; (4) Pray through; (5) Move on
4. Confirming your choice:
   Dealing with Persecution
   • Harassment of family, relatives, and former friends
   • Dealing with spouses and children
5. Winning others:
   Sharing the Faith
   • Navigators’ Bridge to Life booklet (free; also as PDF). Printed booklets (tracts) also available for purchase via Amazon and NavPress)
   • Navigators’ One-Verse Evangelism (free; also as PDF)
   • Personal testimony
   • Opening and closing the conversation
6. All the way with Christ:
   The Cost of Discipleship
   • The Lord’s words in Luke 14.25-35 … cf. Matthew 10.32-39; 16.24-27; Mark 8.34-38; 9.35-37; 10.41-45; Luke 9.57-62; 17.33
   • The nature of discipleship and its tension with cultural expectations
   • A conversion message
   • Loving Christ and the church above all else; cf. “first place in everything” (Colossians 1.15-20).
   • BcR’s Colossians audios on Lordship and preeminence of Christ (esp. Col 1.17-18a, 1.18b) mp3 audio
7. Honoring the Lord for real:
   The Tithe
   • Dealing with money; Biblical stewardship
   • BcR’s Biblical View of Financial Responsibility (includes Maimonides’ Eight Levels of Giving).
8. Becoming the right kind of person:
   The Character of the Christian
   • BcR’s chart: The Beatitudes (Mt 5)
   • BcR’s article: Vice and Virtue Lists of the New Testament
   • BcR’s article: NT Servant Passages from the household codes
   • Character, attitudes, and speech
   • BcR’s flowchart: Perceived Offense and Protecting the Accused (Mt 18)
9. What it means to learn:
   Spiritual Authority
   • BcR’s study: Understanding Spiritual Authority
   • The two ways: the way of the wise; the way of the foolish
10. My church:
    Baptism
    • BcR’s mp3 audio of ncBc’s 2011 Baptisms
    • Obligations to the fellowship
    • Expectations and discipline

Important things to remember before each mentoring meeting

1. Pray for them —
   • The key to spiritual power
   • It weakens resistance.
2. Find the right place; set the right time —
   • A neutral place that is appropriate; check mood and look out for interruptions.
   • The time must be regular — no longer than 1½ hours.
3. Be ready to meet pressing needs —
   • Be aware of their life situation.
   • Always bring money.
4. “LEAD” them —
   • Listen
   • Empathize
   • Ask
   • Disclose
   • … ask open-ended questions and be sure to reassure.
5. Teach them — five steps:
   • Tell them why.
   • Show them how.
   • Get them started.
   • Keep them going.
   • Have them pass it on.