1 Corinthians 3:5-7                                                                                                              What then is Apollos? What is Paul?  Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.  I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.  So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.  

1 Corinthians 4:1-2                                                                                                                This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.  Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful. 

Whether you are new to mentoring or are a well seasoned mentor it is important to remember that a Mentor is a position of a servant.   And who is it we serve?  According to the  text, we are servants of Christ.  We serve Jesus by serving others…teaching them to be followers of Jesus and practicing spirituals disciplines that draw them into intimate, transforming relationship with Him.  We exercise faith and humble ourselves, sharing our experiences, struggles and weaknesses and through this, revealing the counter-intuitiveness of God’s strength being made perfect in our weakness.

Philippians 2:4-8                                                                                                                     Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.  Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Let us be imitators of Jesus and empty ourselves of pride by taking on the position of a servant!