?Intro: Shalom and welcome again to ONMA's 1st Annual Global Cyber Conference which has been designed in accordance with the three C's of our corporate vision: To Connect, Confirm & Commission Ministries for the work of The Kingdom of G?d. This One New Man Alliance module entitled Mentorship is one 45 min. session. In this session will we endeavor to answer the following questions and discuss the terms mentioned below pertaining to this subject. I will also use my personal experience to support my answer because I am currently in a mentorship program with my Rabbi John Wesley Adkins. 1. What is Mentorship? Mentorship is the practice of assigning a junior member of staff to the care of a more experienced person who can assist him/her in becoming excellent in their career, task, project or field of occupation. In my situation, I am the junior member. Rabbi John is the more experienced person who is doing a great job of assisting me in becoming excellent as both a Pastor of Christian Love Center and a Prophet in his organization. God also uses me as a Prophet at Christian Love Center, but the true seeds of a Prophet were sown and watered at my mentor's organization. I had another ministry to sow some seeds of a Prophet into my life, and I am grateful of that experience. However, having operated in the office of a Teacher, I could quickly grasp the concept of providing a scripture to support the prophetic word. Such a concept is considered the true seeds of a Prophet to me. 2. How does one go about seeking the right Mentor? The steps are as follows: Step #1 - Mentorship must be established on a RELATIONSHIP. The mantra in the area of real estate is location, location, location. The mantra in mentorship is RELATIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP. If your candidates are not interested in mentoring anyone, that door is closed regardless of their track record. Let me be clear. Any attempt to by-pass this step will lead to a very disappointing mentorship. Again, using my personal experience as supporting information, I remember the day when one of my former church members wanted me to come with her to Rabbi John's church. I accepted her invitation. Up until now, I thought that my interpretations of scripture was of perfect soundness. I found out the hard way that my scriptural interpretations had some sacred cows that needed to be escorted out of the door. After I fully agreed with Rabbi John's corrections, I decided to allow his ministry to be my covering and to begin a spiritual relationship with him. This decision ranks as one of the most important decisions I have ever made in my entire life as a Christian. Step #2 - Assuming that a relationship has been established, your potential mentor should be seeing some signs that you really value his/her expertise. Using my mentor (Rabbi John) as an example, he noticed that I take the principles I learn at his Shabbat services and incorporate them into my Sunday morning services. Also, I began to apply the principles during the Shabbat services via the motivational (Romans chapter 12), ministerial (Ephesians chapter 4) and spiritual (1 Corinthians chapter 12) gifts. In summary, my mentor concluded that the "student" in me has arrived. Afterwards, the "teacher" in him appeared. I didn't let him know of my mission, vision, goals, and assignments. Rabbi John earned my respect to a degree that I decided to allow him to give me (by the Holy Spirit) his mission, vision, goals, and assignments for my life. Afterwards, he informed me of how my gifts can be used by God to fulfill what's in Rabbi's heart as well as what's in my heart. At the same time, Rabbi John was very mindful of my ministerial gift as a Pastor. He was also mindful that my spiritual contributions will cause me to be an even better Pastor. That's a good sign of discerning a true mentor FOR YOU. The mission (the big picture), vision (the big strategy of how to accomplish the big picture), goals (components of the big plan on how to accomplish the big strategy), and assignments (components of each goal) of your mentor should complement your mission, vision, goals, and assignments instead of contradicting your mission, vision, goals, and assignments. There are many true mentors in the world. You're looking for the true mentor that COMPLETES you instead of COMPETING with you. The best scriptural support of what I just said was the mentorship between Elijah and Elisha which is the most famous relationship in the Bible. [In truth (not in fact), I don't think the Body of Christ would have the concept of mentorship in our minds if the Elijah/Elisha story wasn't recorded in the Bible.] When God began to shift Elijah's responsibilities from confrontational Prophet to a prophetic mentor, Elisha didn't have to "inform" Elijah of his personal mission, vision, goals, and assignments. Instead, when Elijah placed his mantle on Elisha, Elisha decided to accept whatever mission, vision, goals, and assignments that God had for