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After reading Soul Survivor, I have learned how important it is to have a mentor and be a mentor to others. Mentors can be a helpful influence spiritually and a guiding light in today's world. **Philemon 1:7**says,"your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the Lord’s people." I think this verse goes along nicely with Soul Survivor, because it is talking about bringing joy to one another and lifting each other up through encouragement. To me, a mentor is supposed to be someone we want to be like and live our lives similar too. [|Mentoring and the spititual well-being of late adolescents]

Mentoring does not have to be a planned thing; it can be living our lives according to God's will and sharing that will with non believers. Sometimes we can mentor someone we do not know just by them seeing how we live and even that can change their life.

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Soul Survivor has also made me realize that a mentor does not have to be a family member or someone close to you, it can be someone you admire or are inspired by. In Soul Survivor, Yancey did not include any family members. His mentors where all well know people, either by what they did or what difference they made in their lives. **Deuteronomy 4:6 says, "**observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.” It is always good when looking for mentors, to take the time and choose wisely. It is best to find the one person or many people, as Yancey did, that suit your needs best.

I did not necessarily disagree with anything in Soul Survivor but I did disagree with something we talked about in class. We talked about how a mentor can be younger than us. I feel that, that is not true. A mentor is supposed to have more wisdom than us and be able to help us in difficult situations. If a mentor is younger than you, they are not going to be able to give you the best advice because they probably have not had some of the same experiences you have had. If that is possible how can they encourage you if having not gone through the same experience as you? That is just something I did not understand and I feel that a mentor should be older so you can look up to them.