2. We have not been discipled ourselves. Countless pastors have admitted to me that they never had a mentor. Bible colleges and seminaries teach theology and methodology, but ministers of God cannot be mass-produced on an assembly line. God’s servants are hand-made. Doctors in this country must go through an internship program, but rarely do Christian leaders receive hands-on training from caring mentors. Paul told the Corinthians, “I became your father through the gospel” (1 Cor. 4:15, NASB), but this concept is foreign today because the fatherlessness of our culture is also in the church.
