As we view the Stone being rejected by the builders, Jesus’ rejection by both God and man, and we understand this brutal rejection was so that we would be accepted by God, it leads us to praise and worship. As we experience the power of the call for us to exit the darkness of rebellion and unbelief, it leads us to praise and worship.
In looking at the cross, we see Jesus, in a deliberate act of worship “bow His head” (John 19:30), and from our own smitten hearts with love, we bow our heads and worship Him in awe and wonder, and we begin declaring the praises of Jesus who called us out of darkness into His marvelous light.
As you supervise your mentors-in-training, we want to encourage their own praise and worship of Him who died and rose for them. We want to continually be pointing them to the cross, where they and their sin died, and to Jesus’ resurrection where they are given a new heart and a new life. We want to encourage them to rejoice in this message and to let their worship of the crucified/risen King spill over into their mentoring.
So, the daily life of the Christian is to be one of sacrifice and praise, giving up ourselves for others and praising God for the sacrifice of His Son. The gospel affects our daily living.
As a supervisor, you will want to help your mentors-in-training to see how the cross affects their daily living, leading them to a life of sacrifice and praise.
Finally, let’s close with another sample answer from a mentor-in-training, and let’s help them to communicate the power of the cross:
Jim (male)/Susan (female) writes, “Yes, you’re so right, we need to seek the Lord first, we must have a private devotional time during the first part of our day to connect with Christ and get our ‘marching orders’ for the day!”
Question 5. How would you help your mentor-in-training, in a gentle way, see that their admonition was powerless, and how would you help them formulate a response of love and power and grace flowing from the cross?
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Thank you for taking the time to study this course. Tomorrow, we will look at the third point that we see in 1 Peter 2:4-10, his use of the Old Testament as it points to the cross.