Authentic Spiritual Mentoring
 Nurturing believers toward spiritual maturity

Gives those who desire to mentor, but don't know how, the practical steps and encouragement they need to get started.

The Church needs believers who are willing to learn to spiritually mentor others, who are willing to act as spiritual elders-spiritual fathers and mothers in the faith- to mentor and nurture other believers to help them grow spiritually and be fully equipped to serve Christ and to do the works of Jesus wherever they live and work. Authentic Spiritual Mentoring gives step-by-step guidance on how a believer can move from being an observer of other believers to being a truly impacting spiritual influence for Christ in another believer’s life. In this invaluable book, Larry Kreider offers input for the lives of spiritual parents (healing of past relationships, becoming secure in God’s love), as well as how to mentor other believers (pray daily, encourage, etc.).

• Gives those who desire to mentor, but don’t know how, the practical steps and encouragement they need to get started
• Promotes authentic spiritual mentoring at different ages and stages of life and faith; emphasizes how every believer needs spiritual mentoring or needs to be a mentor to others
• From a seasoned trainer and discipler of Christian leaders

• For believers who want to have a meaningful spiritual impact on other believers; also for pastors, church and youth leaders 

Read an excerpt from the first chapter! click here

Other mentoring resources by Larry Kreider

The Cry for Spiritual Fathers and Mothers book

The Cry for Spiritual Fathers and Mothers Audio Set

The Cry for Spiritual Fathers and Mothers DVD Training

What others are saying about Authentic Spiritual Mentoring:

To write a book on spiritual mentoring, one must be a spiritual mentor to communicate the true authority of the message. Larry Kreider is a spiritual mentor! In his book he not only extends a call to those who have a heart to train and establish others, but shares practical wisdom that helps one generation establish the next. This book gives models or blueprints of “how to,” and challenges all of us to move on beyond our dysfunctional and abusive relationships of the past and become the models of relationship building for a new generation. Authentic Spiritual Mentoring helps you to develop a new lifestyle —after all, we are always influencing someone. —Dr. Chuck D. Pierce President, Glory of Zion Intl Ministries

Larry Kreider is a true servant to the Church—a leader whose dimension of effectiveness in advancing the Kingdom and shaping leaders evidences a level of gifting and humility that is so apostolic that it doesn’t need that title to certify it. I trust this man because his heart is pure and his mind is clear. —Jack W. Hayford, President, International Foursquare Churches; Chancellor, The King’s College and Seminary; Founding Pastor, The Church On The Way, California

This book covers one of the most important needs in the body of Christ today. Larry Kreider has presented to us an excellent biblical presentation of the principles, value and purpose for “Authentic Spiritual Mentoring.” Every Christian and major church leader who wants to reach their maximum potential needs to read this book. This is the best book I have ever read on being spiritual mothers and fathers and doing proper spiritual mentoring. Thanks Larry for making this priceless book available to the body of Christ. —Dr. Bill Hamon, Bishop of Christian International Ministries Network, Florida

The teaching presented in this book is desperately needed in the Body of Christ today. Larry Kreider has written from revelation and also from experience. This book gives scriptural keys and spiritual understanding that can help any serious Kingdom advancing church or ministry move to a higher level of effectiveness. Mentoring, fathering and raising up healthy spiritual posterity is the most urgent task of the Church today. —George Bakalov, Founder, Overseer, Harvest Breakthrough Network Intl., Inc, Minnesota.

What a great book! It's down to earth, practical, understandable and applicable to mentoring emerging leaders today. It's authentic. Larry Kreider is a father in the Church today. He writes out of who he is and the practical experience he has gained over the years. This book is a must for those who are mentoring or discipling others. —Barbara J Yoder, Senior Pastor, Shekinah Christian Church, Michigan

Larry has done it again.  He is always on the cutting edge of releasing revelation.  This newest volume is timely, strategic, and will find a large readership in the Body of Christ, especially among marketplace ministers.  This book on mentoring powerfully presents the relational base for cultural transformation and for extending the Kingdom of God in the earth."  —Jim Hodges, Apostolic Leader, Federation of Ministers and Churches International, Texas

Authentic Spiritual Mentoring covers practical topics and concerns that are not found in other books on this key topic. After teaching mentoring for years in Seminary and churches I have used every helpful book that was available; this would have been at the top of my list. Don’t start a mentoring relationship without it. —Dr. Joseph Umidi, Founder of Lifeforming Leadership Coaching,Virginia

What a joy and honor to recommend Authentic Spiritual Mentoring by my dear friend Larry Kreider. We have many teachers but few fathers. For over 25 years, I have seen the fruit of a true father in the faith that has produced some of the greatest leaders in the body of Christ. I highly recommend Larry’s new book. —Bob Weiner, President, Weiner Ministries International, Florida

With insight and wisdom gleaned from years of experience, Larry Kreider speaks directly to a crucial issue facing the church today—how to mentor people into their individual life callings. In a microwave society where we are accustomed to looking for heat-and-stir recipes, Larry takes us back to the Bible and builds a model that will produce lasting fruit. —Michael P. Fletcher, Manna Church, North Carolina

Larry has done it again! He's put cutting-edge concepts into laymen's language.  This is by far the best book I have read on this subject. The combination of Biblical principles and practical examples easily goes cross-cultural. The chapter on finding a spiritual parent is worth the price of the book. This should be read by senior church and missions leaders, but could also be read by young leaders who can begin to apply the teachings before they finish the book. Larry has lived it, and has true authority and experience that many will learn from. Buy numerous copies of this book, practice the principles, and whatever your ministry is, it will be multiplied into many others and future generations. Give this book away to faithful men and women now. —Jim Orred, Youth With A Mission, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

What the church needs today is for men and women to be spiritual parents. Through Authentic Spiritual Mentoring, Larry Kreider has made a key contribution on a very important subject. The need for spiritual fathers and mothers is great, and he explores this subject with great insight, real-life stories and practical pointers for all who want to mentor and be mentored. I found myself challenged by his writing, touched by the stories, and filled with hope that the Church will arise to God's call to be spiritual fathers and mothers. —Dominic Yeo, Trinity Christian Centre, Singapore

Everybody thinks it’s a good idea; spiritual mentoring, discipling, spiritual parenting, but few do it, and there is a lot of misconception about what it looks like. Thank goodness for Larry Kreider’s latest book. It is biblical, clear and practical and it is by far the best book I have read on the subject. I thoroughly recommend it to all who have a heart to mentor. The great news is that we can all do it! —Paul Reid, Christian Fellowship Church, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Once again, Larry Kreider has pioneered the way for others with this new book that combines experience, knowledge and passion to guide us into Kingdom community. Read it with a highlighter in your hand and a person you wish to mentor in your heart! —Ralph Neighbour, Touch Ministries, Texas

I loved Larry’s real-live illustrations to explain why believers are desperately in need of spiritual mentoring. Yet, Larry goes beyond illustrations and lays the Biblical foundations for mentoring others. Finally, he teaches us how to do it. Thanks, Larry. —Joel Comiskey, Ph.D, California

Larry Kreider has written a must read book! Authentic Spiritual Mentoring reveals the secret that all successful people know; mentors empower and enable people to find their proper placement and position. Mentoring is a Biblical principle, which is more relevant and necessary today than ever before. Kreider provides a comprehensive explanation on how to find the right mentor and how to be a mentor to others. —Apostle John P. Kelly, President/Founder, LEAD, Texas

This book, in a powerful way, reveals the vital need we all have for authentic mentoring relationships whether in the church or marketplace. The cry of the emerging generation is for someone to walk alongside of them, and this book clearly reveals how everyone has something to offer and can be the answer to that cry. I found the book to be deeply challenging and a practical hands-on guide to life-changing mentoring relationships. —Lester Zimmerman, Petra Christian Fellowship, Pennsylvania

Richly appointed with practical illustrations and guidance, Larry's text unfolds a healthy, biblical culture of mentoring. Flexibly, this equipping tool provides the basics for the newcomer to mentoring as well as fresh insights for the experienced mentor. —Keith Yoder, Teaching The Word Ministries, Pennsylvania

Larry lives this book. My wife and I have been blessed by the Lord in our firsthand experience of the sincere "Authentic Spiritual Mentoring" through Larry and his wife LaVerne over the years.  Everyone mentoring and those who are being mentored needs to read and gain the anointed spiritual impartation from this true practioner. He is the "real deal". My prayer is that the U.S. church would be freed from its Empire mindset and become a Kingdom reality, impacting the nations through the biblical applications throughout this book. —Pastor Kay Hiramine, Vision for the Nations Fellowship, Colorado

Rediscovering God as a Father—also means rediscovering the church essentially as a family. His fatherhood needs to ignite both a happy childlikeness as well as passionate parenthood for others in all of us,  so that we all may grow up into the full image of Christ. Larry lives what he preaches, and you can taste that at every page of this great book. Get infected! —Wolfgang Simson, author of "Houses that change the World" and "The Starfish Manifesto," Germany

Books by Larry Kreider