by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 7, 2020 | 2020, Articles, Christian Living, Mentoring
Spiritual mentoring is an intentional, relational process for spiritual formation by which one person becomes a spiritual guide for one or several others. (Adapted from: Anderson, Keith R. & Randy D. Reese. Spiritual Mentoring. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 29, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Authors, Christian Living, Dependence on God, Mentoring, Soo-Inn Tan
I am about to teach a course on mentoring for BGST (Biblical Graduate School of Theology). Originally planned for the end of 2019, this will now take place in the first half of 2020. In preparation for the course I asked some of those I had the privilege to mentor, to...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 18, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Mentoring
Last night we had the privilege of hosting a dinner for Tony Horsfall in our home. Of course we wanted this long-time practitioner of spiritual mentoring to say a few words about spiritual mentoring and this he did, after dinner. One of the main points he made was...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 29, 2018 | 2018, Articles, Christian Living, Church, Mentoring, Young Adult Ministry
Last evening (26/6/18) I had dinner with two outstanding young men. They take their call to follow Christ seriously. They take the stewardship of their own lives seriously. They were seeking to make sense of the unfolding circumstances of their lives, but in the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 25, 2018 | 2017, 2018, Articles, Christian Living, Discernment, God, God's Will, Life Issues, Mentoring, Suffering
“Shit Happens” Idiom: used to say that bad things happen as part of life and cannot be prevented (Merriam-Webster) I was at a very low point in my life, perhaps the lowest to date. I had lost a wife to cancer, another to a divorce, which led to the loss of...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 28, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Christian Living, Christian Unity, Church, Mentoring
Michael Low, a good friend of mine, is finishing his studies at Regent College, Vancouver. He has kindly accepted the role of being a living epistle — I have asked him to convey my greetings to the Regent faculty who had blessed me when I was there (1981–1985)....
