What Bernstein Agreed To
Theme for the Week: Mentoring
Fred Smith, Sr.
Sunday, July 29, 2001
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Key Bible Verse: What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching (2 Timothy 1:13).
Bonus Reading: 2 Timothy 1:3-7, 14
Increasingly churches are starting mentoring programs, but the concept isn't widely understood. Often it becomes older men visiting with younger men with no agenda. These visits often turn into Bible study or prayer timeexcellent activities, but not mentoring. Mentoring is a one-on- one relationship between a mentor and a mentoree for the specific, definable development of a skill or art.
A young pianist came to Leonard Bernstein and asked to be mentored by him. Bernstein said, "Tell me what you want to do, and I'll tell you whether or not you're doing it." This revealed Bernstein's deep understanding of mentoring. The young man initiated the contact. He had a specific request, and made it of an authoritynot to get rich as a concert pianist or famous like Bernstein, but to become a better pianist.
Bernstein essentially said to the young man, "You're responsible for your playing and your practice. The one thing you can't do is hear yourself as a great pianist hears you. That I can do and will do for you."
Fred Smith, Sr. in Leading with Integrity
Lord, I want to manage well what I've learned from others by purposefully passing it on.
Adapted from: Leading with Integrity (Bethany, 1999)
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