Yoda in the Bible?

Yodas – “To Grow in Life a Mentor You Must Have”

Given at Pekin Grace UMC _ 11/19

Who has the best Yoda voice here? Say “tag line” (above)

Note cards & pens? Write some areas of your life that you want to do better in! Who feels comfortable sharing?

Anything spiritual?

Sweet used Peter/Paul as the Scriptural example of the need for a Mentor in your life (a Yoda)… and instead of trying to cover both characters… I’m going with Paul. You guys already learned about a guy named Timothy when you talked about the fact that ‘everyone needs a protégé’ What do you remember about Timothy? We’re only going to cover Paul as it relates to Timothy… because we could spend a whole year studying Paul (there is SO much about him!)

Paul was on a missionary journey, visiting towns and sharing the Gospel to the people when… Acts 16:1-5. He then called Timothy to be with him. And Timothy follows his newfound Yoda (Paul) v6-17:14 for a couple chapters of the Bible at least (we can’t really tell where they split again). Timothy watched Paul: (split up and read as 4 groups, report back) Convert Lydia (16:11-15), Get put in prison (16:16-24), Witness in Thessalonica & get run out of town (17:1-9), witness in Berea & get run out of town (7:10-15), teach a year & 6 months (18:11)

Paul let Timothy help him write letters to the church: II Corinthians 1:1, Philippians 1:1, Colossians 1:1, Philemon 1,

Instructions to Timothy: 2 Tim 2:2;
Same idea for a whole church: Philippians 4:9

Timothy goes on to be a pastor, and a good one… he had a Yoda to learn from.

There is nothing mysterious about this…. Find someone you want to be like, a (Hebrews 13:7) nd learn from them. I encourage you to break it down by areas…

For me:
Family (Mark)
Teaching (Bill)
Evangelism (??)

So look at your notecard… and the area you want to grow in life… the area you want to do better in… brainstorm a person who could help you do that.

How do you ask?
- Pray about it
-Explain what we’ve learned tonight. Tell them you look up to them in the area of ‘??’ and ask if they can help teach you what they know.
-If you can’t think of someone… ask around for good Yodas in a specific area.