In Mentor Like Jesus, Regi Campbell questions all conventional thinking about mentoring by simply looking at the example of Jesus. He says:
We have visualized Jesus as CEO, Jesus as an environmentalist, and even thought about what Jesus’ politics might have been. But in reality … in history … regardless of your religious beliefs, Jesus was a mentor.
He describes eleven characteristics of what he calls Next Generation Mentoring, which include:
- It is on purpose. Mentoring is an intentional relationship that is unlike any other. Regi says it is not about knowing something. That is education. It is not about learning to do to something. That is training. Mentoring is about showing someone how to be something.
