Burgers and Guns Night

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Every Spring, Mentoring Warriors hosts a burgers and guns night. Men from their late teens into their senior adult years gather for some meat, mentorship and opportunities to test their marksmanship. 

Four stations are set up: target practice, skeet, archery and axe throwing. The grand finale is a marksman challenge targeting tannerite; to see how far the sacrificial tire will go skyward!  

The evening wraps up around a bonfire where we worship the Lord and talk about the value of godly, Christ-centered mentoring.

This year’s talk focused on Generational Masculinity. It’s the idea that one generation of Christ-following men are called by God to invest their time into a younger generation of men. This idea is woven throughout Scripture, particularly in 2 Timothy 2:2

and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men,^[a] who will be able to teach others also. 

Paul poured his life into young Timothy. He told him to do the same by entrusting the Gospel to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also. That’s four generations following Christ because of Paul’s faithfulness to Timothy.

Of course good intentions don’t guarantee follow-through. What if the faithful men Timothy invested in dropped the proverbial ball?  What if the efforts Paul started with Timothy ended with the next generation?  What if the fourth generation in Paul’s charge to Tim never happened?

What I can tell you is someone did follow through. The reason I know is that if you are walking with Christ today, or someone is mentoring you, the faithfulness of multiple spiritual generations to get to you happened, by the grace of God.  

The question is will you be the last generation of faith?  Whether it’s biologically-speaking or spiritually, the question is will your children know Christ and walk with Him because of your faithfulness?  

Will there be younger men who are following Jesus because you took the time to mentor them?

We ended the bon-fire pit talk with three options:

Option 1. Wait. Recognize your need to be mentored, but wait for someone to come along and invest in you. Time will drift on. Waiting will find you much older and frankly lacking in your walk with God. Saved, but nowhere near where you could be if you had a mentor. Most guys who wait fail to see the long-term value of a godly mentor.

Option 2. Do nothing. This is by far the path towards spiritual immaturity; guaranteed. And, in all honesty, women are not very interested in men who do nothing.

Option 3. Take Initiative. Get off your seat, make a list of possible older men in your life who follow Christ, who could mentor you. Pray for discernment. Ask one of them to coffee (you pay). Start the conversation about learning from them on how to become a man of godly character.

You can follow this link to a post on how to find a mentor. Finding a Mentor

Of course, as much we’d all vote for option #3, most of us will let apathy rule and end up taking options #1 or #2.

Prove us wrong!

If you are ready to see your life move forward, by either finding a mentor or choosing to be one, go for option #3. 

Reach out to us at info@mentoring-warriors.com  Let us know your plan.  If you need help figuring out how to find a man to mentor you, in Christ, we can guide your process.

Enjoy these photos from a recent Burgers and Guns Night.

Warrior On!