The prophet's handbook

takes a while for you to realize that it is also a power-shaping experience. For your mentorship to work, a clear-cut outline of service expectations and requirements should be drawn up. Both mentor and mentoree should agree to it. In the beginning, if you are serious about your mentorship, prepare to have little time for yourself. Initially you will be obliged to spend a large part of your life with your mentor serving, learning, growing, and encountering. You will be stretched, and that is the name of the game. But if you want to get the best out of your mentorship, be guided by the following suggestions. Quick Study Chart Coming under Your Mentor’s Wing

Be honest about your actions, reactions, motives, offenses, and defenses. Question your motives and honestly appraise your real self, especially in view of required mentorship duties. Explore your fears, doubts, anger, and resistance, particularly as they relate to authority figures. Ask yourself how selfishly motivated you may have been, or if you have a real problem in developing that should be promptly handled. Ask yourself how interested you really are in being successful in God, and what will you sacrifice for it. Will it be pride? Ego? Your independence? Investigate what you expected to get from and give to your mentorship in preparation for your ministry. Was your imagination realistic? What hidden psycho-emotional limitations did you place in the mentorship before it began? When they surface, are you willing to honestly declare them? Now that you have given your word, are you going to back out, or