Walking With God

Author: Regi Campbell with Richard Chancy

Quick Summary

This book shows a framework used by Jesus in order to mentor a group of mentees using intentional, loving, God-centric principles in order to produce upstanding men of God.  It provides an example book reading list, schedule, methods for picking your mentees, sample scripture list and how to go about starting to mentor.

Key Insights

• One-on-one mentoring is inefficient.  Group mentoring produces better results and faster. (kindle location 296)
• Challenge the group to be on time and to commit to every session.  Punctuality is a lost skill in our culture as is commitment. (kindle location 624, 1491)
• Have the group write their own obituary as their “entrance exam”. (kindle location 1411)
• Have the mentees sign a covenant, not a contract.
• Anyone can mentor.  You just have to mentor a life-stage that you have been through. (kindle location 1580)
• God is the true mentor.
• Don’t let them off the hook.  Keep them to their commitments.

Personal Application

1. I will start mentoring as soon as possible.  God has been putting this on my heart lately, and this book really showed me that there is no reason I can’t start now.
2. I will commit to reading a book a month.  For too long I took a hiatus from books.  “Leaders are readers”
3. I will keep a prayer log.  I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time, but this book reminded me yet again.

Meaningful Quotes

• More time with fewer people equals greater kingdom impact. (kindle location 296)
• I start by challenging them to be on time, somewhat of a lost practice in our culture and particularly in church world. (kindle location 624)
• Leaders are readers. (kindle location 1725)
• The way you disrespected our appointment times communicated that you disrespected me. (kindle location 2429)
• Regi has trained himself to ask the really good questions in the right way. (kindle location 2672)
• the more conservative the denomination, the faster the growth rate. (kindle location 2738)
• Numbers are like hostages … torture them long enough, and they'll tell you whatever you want to hear. (kindle location 2755)
• Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. (kindle location 2965)