Welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson. I'm here to encourage you in your walk with God. Thank you for joining in.

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Hey, welcome back and thanks for listening in. So today is an unapologetic call to everyone,

to you and to me, to be aware of the people God has put in our lives who need one-on-one attention.

Much of what you have learned and experienced in your life is about much more than just how

those things shaped your life. Today, we are calling all

mentors. We are asking each and every person to find that one-on-one connection, that person in

your life, probably someone younger than you, probably someone close to you, who is absolutely in need of guidance,

but maybe just doesn't know how to ask or doesn't know who to ask. A lot of times when we think

about mentorship, we think about it on a professional level, someone who is licensed or hired

or set up by someone else to fulfill a role.

Or we think of it in terms of professional roles, like a preacher needing a mentor to help him grow in that

field. One of the first ideas I want to seed in you today is that mentorship is far more broad

than that and inclusive.

When we are calling all mentors today, in essence, what I'm doing is calling everyone a mentor,

or at least calling everyone to make the necessary personal changes to position yourself to mentor and guide someone else.

The word mentor, by the way, simply means an experienced or

trusted advisor. And again, when you strip away all of the official or professional concepts related to

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