Mentorship

About this episode

Angus Buchan discusses the importance of mentorship in the context of family and spiritual guidance.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 6th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. If we go to 1 Corinthians 4:15, Paul says: “For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.” Ten thousand instructors, very few fathers, and I want to include mothers in this thought today. I am talking about the heads of our homes. I looked up the Oxford Dictionary to see the literal meaning of the word "mentorship" and "a mentor”. A mentor is an experienced person who advises you over a period of time. It takes a long time to be a mentor, a father, a mother. If you look at the next verse, 1 Corinthians 4:16: it says, “ Therefore” Paul says, “I urge you, imitate me.”  Then we go to 1 Corinthians 11:1, he says it again: “Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.” Now there is a challenge. It is not easy, no ways, and it takes a long time. In fact, it takes a lifetime. My children are grown up and my oldest children are grandparents already, but yet I am still there for them. I am still their mentor and their dad. A mentor…

People in this episode

Host: Angus Buchan

Topics covered

• mentorship
• parenting
• spiritual guidance
• Christian teachings
• family relationships

Keywords

• mentorship
• Christianity
• parenting
• spirituality
• guidance

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: 1 Corinthians 4:15, 1 Corinthians 4:16, 1 Corinthians 11:1

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