Employee and Executive mentoring is the best way to share knowledge, experience and expertise throughout your organization .

Mentoring pairs talented, experienced employees (mentors) with promising, less experienced employees (mentorees). Over time, working one-on-one, the mentor and mentoree – and the organization – reap real rewards.

These excerpts are from a mentor training guide. Mentoring programs in business have become a wide used and popular practice for training of new employees. Mentorship is practiced in schools (tutor programs), business, and even in government programs. It is as specific or expansive as needed for training purposes.

Its origins however, are not found in the basements of business history, but within the pages of scripture. Yes, it is of a divine origin, and the greatest mentor in the history of man is pictured as its icon.

1 Corinthians 11:1 “Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.”

Philippians 2:5 “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus ,”

This would be the very concept of the great commission, whereby the Lord would charge His chosen to go into the world and make disciples of everyone, note:

Matthew 28:18-20 “And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you ; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.

Just as the Apostles and Prophets lived and wrote concerning the mind of Christ (as both a pattern to follow and instruction to learn from); they also expanded this concept of mentorship by instructing Christians to note and follow the more experienced disciples of Christ, note:

Philippians 3:17 “Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern.”

2 Timothy 2:2 “And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.”

Hebrews 13:7 “Remember those who rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith follow, considering the outcome of their conduct.”

What we learn from this biblical mentoring program is that we must never fall short of holding all those we learn from and especially ourselves to the specific original standard, note:

Hebrews 5:8-9 “though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. 9 And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,”

Jesus Christ , God's Chosen Mentor !