Early in my Christian life, I didn’t have a mentor, so I floundered. Eventually, a Sunday school teacher named Dennis began inviting me into his home to answer my questions. Those meetings brought great clarity for me, and he became my model for discipleship.
If you follow me on social media, you might have seen the Reel I posted recently based on the relationship between Jesus and his three closest disciples: Peter, James, and John – all of whom benefited from Jesus pouring truth, knowledge and wisdom into their minds and hearts.
We don’t know why he chose those three, but they were present for some amazing moments. They witnessed the Transfiguration where they saw Moses and Elijah talking to Jesus about his death. Can you imagine? (You can read about it in Matthew 17:1-8, Mark 9:2-8 and Luke 9:28-36.) The three also saw Jesus raising Jairus’s daughter from the dead (Luke 8:49-56) and were with him in the garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:36-38) shortly before his death.
Over lunch one day, a few friends and I were talking about the relationship Jesus had with these three men, and one of my friends tossed this statement on the table for discussion: imagine if every Christian had three people (who they discipled and mentored spiritually), and then those three did the same with three more. The gospel (and arguably gospel maturity) would spread.
That led to the question: Who are your three? Who are you discipling or mentoring right now? Of course, it doesn’t have to be three. But the question is worth considering.
In the past, who have you poured yourself into spiritually? Who are you pouring yourself into right now? Do you need to be more intentional?
