Discipleship and Mentorship

After my last post, I began thinking about mentorship.  That's one part that I thought was generally missing from my life. 

Let's recap for a bit...  

Four Fishermen Called as Disciples

¹⁸ And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. ¹⁹ Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” ²⁰ They immediately left their nets and followed Him.
²¹ Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them, ²² and immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him.

Jesus Heals a Great Multitude

²³ And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. ²⁴ Then His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them. 

Now, what we've initially gathered from watching what Jesus teaches here is that we shouldn't take a lot of time learning every single bit of information before becoming active in a subject, or in any undertaking.

All you really need to do is come up with an idea, and start doing it.  Part of the action is "start now even if you don't have all the information".  The second part is mentorship.

Mentorship and discipleship are intrinsically tied together.  A disciple can be defined as "a person who is a pupil or an adherent fo the doctrines of another; follower."  And a mentor then, is the teacher.

Now, back to my main thought.  I've never really had a mentor.  Now I realize I've got several, and I picked them up when I wasn't even looking.  The first is the Bible.  It's probably the single greatest repository of truth there is.  It would be better if someone had come along and indexed everything, but the Bible is a document that speaks to each individual in different places and spaces.  No matter what I flip through, I find something that pertains to my life.  The only real question: am I tough enough to apply it?  Sound easy?

Proverbs 22:7

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

So... how easy is it to follow the Bible?  Not very easy.