Mentoring and Discipleship Programs

Sozo Services provides customized mentor-protégé programs for Christian business owners and executives, and spiritual discipleship programs for those who are new in their walk with the Lord.  As iron sharpens iron, we are called to nurture each other to full maturity (Proverbs 27:17).  For the Christian business owner, this mentor-protégé relationship can only be provided by another mature Christian with business ownership and leadership experience.

Our mentoring services are tailored to the commercial marketplace challenges that owners and corporate executives face on a daily basis.  Many Christian executives need assistance in finding and maintaining a solid Christian walk, balancing the demands of serving the Lord amid family responsibilities, while achieving corporate goals, meeting payroll, providing a secure future for their employees, and keeping church and ministry commitments.

One of the challenges that business owners and corporate executives face, is that they frequently do not have anyone to turn to when they need ministry. They are constantly being asked to minister to others, but there is no one to minister to them.  It is impossible to pour out to others, the spiritual strength which is not contained in yourself, and therefore Jesus told his disciples to come apart to Himself, so that He could refresh them (Mark 6:31).  As Paul mentored Timothy, Elijah mentored Elisha, and Moses mentored Joshua, each of us needs a mature spiritual confidant to help nurture us and provide godly wisdom in times of need.  In fact, God has made us to be relational creatures after His own image and likeness.  Ultimately, Christian business leaders cannot succeed and mature outside of Christian fellowship, just as a branch cannot survive outside of the vine (John 15:4-5).

We also provide discipleship programs that are geared towards new converts and those that are young in the Lord.  For businesses that are helping to lead their employees to the Lord, this assists in ensuring that new Christians are nurtured as they learn to walk with the Lord and the leading of His Holy Spirit, and develop the spiritual disciplines of daily Bible reading, finding and attending a church, being faithful in prayer, and fulfilling the Great Commission (Mark 16:15-18).  It is only by the putting off of the old man and renewing our minds (Ephesians 4:23) that we learn to grow from glory to glory in our walk with the Lord.