With: A Practical Approach to Informal Mentoring [Kindle Edition]

Alvin L. Reid (Author)

Book Description

If you have ever had someone take the time to mentor you, you know this type of relationship takes investment and effort. But how has this relationship paid off in your life? And are you ready to mentor someone yourself?

Author Alvin Reid introduces a specific mentoring strategy in With: A Practical Approach to Informal Mentoring. Emphasizing the kind of mentoring Jesus used, this book models how the best learning comes not from simply listening to a leader, but spending time with one.

Product Details

• File Size: 165 KB
• Print Length: 43 pages
• Publisher: Navpress (September 3, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0090NAIB4
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #110,732 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars With: A Guide To Informal Mentoring September 13, 2012

By Jim Proulx

I have long been encouraged by the writings and tweets of Alvin Reid. I love his heart for young adults and college students. As a college pastor, I want to impact as many young adults and college students as I can for Christ. I would love to have lunch with Alvin Reid for the purpose of talking ministry and being stretched and challenged in my own life. I started to think that Alvin's new mentoring eBook sounded like common sense. I thought it was obvious. However, I am severely wrong. If mentoring was obvious, more people would do it. If it was obvious then the church would have no problem with older men leading younger men and older ladies teaching younger ladies and so on. Informal mentoring is such a great idea that I have been challenged to mentor the young adults I am around often. Alvin presents Christ as the ultimate informal mentor. I wish I had seen that before. Christ is to his disciples and even to Peter, James, and John as Paul was to Timothy as we are to be to others. This is where I pull in a Star Wars reference. We are to be to others as Obi-Wan is to Luke Skywalker. This eBook has challenged me to involve young adults in my life even in the mundane things as grilling out, cleaning my home office, or even washing my car or going to the grocery store. Informal mentoring is truly doing life with someone. I thought I was doing a good job just hanging out with young adults and talking discipleship, doctrine, theology or whatever with them. I thought by taking them to lunch or going to their school for a visit with them was good. It never occurred to me that while all that is good I was missing a very important element. I was not making them a part of my daily life. Yes, they know where I live. Yes, they know my family. But do they really know me? Making these young adults a part of my life even in the things I do not consider important has huge implications. I can better be a Christlike example to young adults by allowing them to witness my life apart from our large Tuesday night college service and Sunday morning small group. I thought that I was being authentic and transparent but transparency allows one to look into a person's life. What better way of being transparent then by having young adults be a part of your life? This eBook has truly challenged me to disciple and mentor others the way Christ did. I hope through my mentoring that these young adults will have a more intimate relationship with Christ and they will in turn mentor those coming behind them. If you have not read this eBook....read it! It will challenge you.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Short but helpful September 23, 2012

By S. Grotzke

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Point: You can mentor others by involving them in the everyday elements of your life.

Path: Reid explains why we must mentor others and how we can do so in our everyday life. In four short chapters he gives definition to the word "mentoring," the example of Christ, and practical examples of how it looks.

Sources: A lifetime of ministry experience and books such as The Be-With Factor: Mentoring Students in Everyday Life by Boshers and Poling, and Master Plan of Evangelism, The by Coleman.

Agreement: This mentality is commonly ignored in the land of bountiful programs and busy schedules. We would rather fill out an outline with a "disciple" than fill a grocery cart or work around the house.

This is not a comprehensive book, but more of a personal testimony.
More practical ideas for mentoring would be appreciated. The author is in a unique situation.

Personal App: Am I involving others in my life to help move them toward Christ?

Favorite Quote: "We overestimate the impact of our words when we stand before a group to teach" (loc. 95)

It would be worth another read and I would recommend it. I am looking for a more comprehensive book, but this one is very accessible.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Not Just an Idea September 20, 2012

By P. Harper

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As a former student of Dr. Reid's, I can say that he does not just write about these things, but lives them out. The stories that are in this book are not exhaustive and are just a few of the examples of how Dr. Reid lives daily. I highly recommend this book to any Christ follower who is trying to make an impact for the Kingdom.