Here’s a review of Wayne Cordeiro’s book The Divine Mentor I wrote last year. Thought it might be a helpful recap coming into our Lent series ’40 Days Desert to Destiny’.
Wayne Cordeiro. The Divine Mentor: Growing your faith as you sit at the feet of the Savior. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 2007.
If Wayne Cordeiro could encourage you to read just one book this year, it would not be his! The basis of his book The Divine Mentor is to encourage us to open our Bibles daily and read from the many mentors we encounter there. He treats people like King David as old friends. He sits before them, learns from them, and changes because of their experiences and advice, all the time realizing that their words are actually God’s words. He writes passionately, and with excitement he re-tells Bible stories while recounting his own tales of life and ministry. He rarely wastes a word.
He wants all believers to sit at Jesus’ feet daily, developing the SOAP method of Bible reading (which we use here at St Lukes for our journaling). His encouragement is for people to do this both individually and in groups, spending 20 minutes reading, 20 minutes journaling, and 20 minutes sharing their thoughts with others. He includes his own examples of journaling throughout the book, arguing well that no other book can replace the Bible for our own Spiritual nourishment and development. God has inspired the Bible, not devotional books or commentaries or even his books.
If you’re finding motivation difficult when it comes to reading the Bible, or if your reading is becoming a chore or mundane, then The Divine Mentor is a great place to find that motivation, encouragement and excitement. He inspires confidence to come before God and learn from Him and be Spiritually fed through what we find there within Scripture. Just be prepared to change your life! There’s a copy of The Divine Mentor in the church library if you want to borrow it and have a read.