February 25, 2010
Introduction
Dear reader, the author has endeavored to write this text as a guide to those who desire to take their responsibility seriously in the mentoring of our next generation and the generations to come. And it is our responsibility. God ordained that each generation should value, grow, and faithfully pass on its precious Godly heritage to the next in order that each following generation could with confidence build on the last.
In a great way, we are responsible to God and man for the value and handling we place on the heritage we have been given. From Creation to Calvary until now God has been faithful to reiterate this to each generation. God expects each generation, including ours, to say with David, “Indeed, my heritage is beautiful to me” (Psalm 16).
Being the first to acknowledge my own shortcomings, I pray that God’s precious, holy, spiritual, and eternal truth shall shine through these temporal pages into our hungry hearts to join Paul in knowing Him and faithfully imparting that with which He has entrusted us to our “Timothy, Faithful Men, and Others.”
Mentoring is best learned through mentoring and being mentored. We must be somebody’s “Timothy,” “Faithful Man,” and “Other” before we can be a real “Paul.” But God expects nothing short of our becoming a “Paul,” who can also one day say, “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing” (II Tim. 4:7-8).
