{"id":73,"date":"2011-01-30T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/kz\/?p=73"},"modified":"2011-05-09T10:11:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T10:11:30","slug":"there-are-many-good-reasons-to-seek-a-mentor-which-are-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/kz\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"There are many good reasons to seek a mentor&hellip; which are yours?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\"><\/a>I believe a mentor can help me develop spiritual disciplines and form a closer relationship with God.  <\/p>\n<p>I need to gain a clearer sense of focus in life and ministry.  <\/p>\n<p>I am conscious that in my life and ministry I need insight and accountability in relation to issues of sexuality, use of money and use of power.  <\/p>\n<p>I want to develop as a relational leader.   <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>I want to understand and develop my unique mix of ministry gifts and skills.  <\/p>\n<p>I need to become more accountable for the time and effort I put into marriage and family relationships.  <\/p>\n<p>I struggle with stress in ministry.  <\/p>\n<p>There are specific ministry and life skills I would like to acquire (and these are \u2026\u2026 ).  <\/p>\n<p>I am moving through a time of decision and exploring options for the future.  <\/p>\n<p>I need someone with whom to debrief critical ministry situations.  <\/p>\n<p>I need to resolve or manage interpersonal conflict.  <\/p>\n<p>I need some ways of objectively reviewing my life and ministry and get a \u2018fix\u2019 on where I am and where I need to develop.  <\/p>\n<p>I want someone to keep me on the growing or cutting edge.  <\/p>\n<p>My ministry changing and I would like to manage this transition well.  <\/p>\n<p>I need to be held accountable for specific commitments in my life and ministry.  <\/p>\n<p>I would like to be better organised for effective ministry.  <\/p>\n<p>I want to maintain an ongoing commitment to learning and growth.  <\/p>\n<p>I would like to equip, lead and develop the leaders around me.  <\/p>\n<p>I need to find time for recreation and use it well.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/950363\/LD\/SelfCare\/Reasons%20ministers%20seek%20out%20a%20mentor.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe a mentor can help me develop spiritual disciplines and form a closer relationship with God. I need to gain a clearer sense of focus in life and ministry. I am conscious that in my life and ministry I &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/kz\/?p=73\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mentoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/kz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/kz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/kz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/kz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}