{"id":518,"date":"2017-02-25T23:57:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T23:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=518"},"modified":"2017-02-25T23:57:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T23:57:28","slug":"proverbs-2717-whos-mentoring-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"Proverbs 27:17 &#8211; \u201cWho\u2019s Mentoring Who\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absorbing God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.\u201d Proverbs 27:17<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Applying God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently, I had an opportunity to fellowship with a friend of mine named Ryan. Ryan and his family were visiting California from Wayne, Pennsylvania and he was kind enough to meet with me over breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan is about half my age and he is on fire for Jesus. He\u2019s not the only young man that I fellowship with. In fact, most of the men I fellowship with these days are younger than I am. ;&gt;)<\/p>\n<p>It is refreshing to know that there are young people who are passionate about following Jesus. I have to admit that at Ryan\u2019s age I was just beginning to realize the importance of having a relationship with Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>If you have seven minutes, you may want to watch the live interview Ryan does with me at the end of our visit. If you would like to see some of Ryan\u2019s other posts, go to Ryan Derfler YouTube.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QHWwjO_-xU0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QHWwjO_-xU0<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Accounting of God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Am I mentoring anyone for Jesus? Am I allowing others to mentor me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God&#8217;s Word\u00a0 \u201cAs iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.\u201d Proverbs 27:17\u00a0 Applying God&#8217;s Word Recently, I had an opportunity to fellowship with a friend of mine named Ryan. Ryan and his family were visiting California from Wayne, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=518\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}