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<center>**PURPOSE  OF RELATIONSHIPS SERIES. (Part 3)**</center>



•	**MAKING OF A STAR.**


A mentor may not be well known or a star, but he or she must feel uninhibited to raise an achiever of stellar accomplishments.


Barnabas offers a good example. He played a crucial role in the life and later ministry of Saul of Tarsus who later became Paul the apostle. Barnabas saw something in Saul of Tarsus the other disciples overlooked!


>_"And when Saul had come to Jerusalem; he tried to join the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, and did not believe that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles". Romans 9:26-27 (NKJV)_


Barnabas paved way of Saul’s entry into a circumspect circle of believers. By bringing the converted Saul of Tarsus in person to the apostles, he gave to Saul and his yet-to established ministry invaluable leverage. This right hand of fellowship brought Saul to a level of complete communal acceptance, fellowship, and attendant spiritual growth.


>_Then Barnabas departed for Tarsus to seek Saul. And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church and taught a great many people. And the disciples were first called Christians in
Antioch. Acts 11:25, 26 (NKJV)_


Barnabas in a sense stood as surety for a man other believers were reluctant to accept. By this singular act of generosity, Barnabas conferred legitimacy on the testimonial of the extraordinary conversion of a notorious rabble-rouser.


In contemporary times as well, we can cite example of man who was unafraid to raise a star in the sphere of American literature. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was mentored by his friend, the novelist and critic William Dean Howells. Samuel Langhorne Clemens and William Dean Howells were both distinguished writers in their individual rights, but his friend and mentor cannot lay the same claim to fame or genius, as did Mark Twain, was mentored by his friend, the novelist and critic William Dean Howells. 


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Samuel Langhorne Clements and William Dean Howells were both distinguished writers in their individual rights, but his friend and mentor cannot lay the same claim to fame or genius, as did Mark twain.



It was Mark Twain who gave the world two books almost every child has read for the subject of literature, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), both master pictures of life on and along the Mississippi River in that era. People have said that the genius of Mark Twain was that he understood the moral realism of childhood.
The other example is between Sir Humphrey Davy and Michael Faraday.



Michael Faraday, an English physical scientist, achieved more fame and accomplishments than Sir Humphrey Davy to whom he was an assistant early in his career. Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction and many other important electrical and magnetic phenomena. Today people talk about the “Faraday effect” and measure in Faraday, all named after a former laboratory apprentice.



**_ALWAYS REMIND YOURSELF THAT THE QUALITY OF THE RELATIONSHIPS YOU FOSTER IS PROPORTIONAL TO THE LEVEL OF THE CREATIVE POTENTIAL THAT YOU CARRY WITHIN THAT WILL COME TO FULL EXPRESSION._**



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