Equipped 2024 - Leadership / Preaching: "Learning Mentoring and Discipling From Jesus" by Mike Vestal

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 10:00AM MPR 1 Speaker

Speaker: Mike Vestal

Relationships are precious.

Relationships are hard.

Relationships with others will be hard when relationships with God are not what they ought to be.

Mentoring - Wise, experienced, and Godly advice from a friend and brother

Some people are very wise, Godly, and experienced but not a friend.

Everyone needs someone in their life like this

Discipling - a follower, a learner, an understudy, and he seeks to be as close to the mentor as possible

Some people who just follow are groupies and some follow loosely

John 1-11

Jesus is ultimate relationship guru

Relationships are precious, but relationships are hard, but not in the Godhead.

Hebrews 2:17-18

We have to take care of our relationship with God!

John 2 

first miracle recorded

"Whatever he says to you, do it," Mary said

Jesus is dealing with desperate people; Jesus is present

Running out of wine was a major breach of protocol and could be taken to court

John 3

Jesus is a mentor to religious people

Nicodemus

Sometimes religious people don't get what it means to follow Jesus

We have to get over ourselves

John 4

Problem people - women at the well

The two people could not be more apart

Friend of tax collectors and sinners

"Sinners are loved here"

A village comes to near Jesus because of a woman

John 5

Verses 1-11 Jesus is a mentor to a sick and lonely man

You will never look at the face of another person that does not matter to God

No one to help me get in the water to get healed

John 7

Jesus is a mentor to unbelieving people

His own brothers did not believe in Him

Few are capable of saying more hurtful and harmful things than our own family

John 8

Jesus is a mentor to sinful people

Woman caught in adultery

Behold a lamb that takes away the sins of the world

Jesus is bilingual - speaks grace and truth! And so ought we

John 9

Jesus mentors mistreated people

Man born blind

Only person that really sees was blind

John 11

A mentor to the grieving

Grieved as He hung on cross too

Lazarus is dead

Martha needed truth, a reminder of the resurrection

Mary needed to weep

The Seven Desires of Every Heart - book

Psalm 37:4, 43:4

Everyone wants to be heard and understood

Everyone needs affirmation

Who you are and what you do are valued

Psalm 8

Everyone needs blessing, to be cherished

Every person needs safety

We seek to give them that in Christ

Every person needs to be touched

Jesus went out of the way to touch lepers

Every person needs to belong

Every person needs to be chosen

Jesus has chosen us

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNS3jBU5z4c

Duration 40:55