Be all that you can be. With the right guidance, you can realize your full potential. Follow the leader. Many Christian churches have devolved into the Power Of Positive Thinking or a Tony Robbins seminar. Nothing wrong with positive thinking. Something is wrong with making the humble message of Christ a treatise for getting rich quickly.

There is an easy road to seeking a mentor to guide you in life’s journey. Mimic the mentor, and you will be successful like they are. Turn your thinking skills off and do as they do. Chris Hayes writes of the assault of attention capitalism on our minds and hearts, reordering ourselves and our politics.

So as we sit around the fine restaurant table with the resplendent tablecloth and accompanying accouterments we are compelled to peer at our cell phones. We must see what our internet influencer is doing.

I have never sought a mentor. Colleagues and friends have influenced me but my progress or lack thereof is not attached to another human. Obsession with a great leader results in cultish behavior. Ask the Lemmings how their follow-the-leader mentality is working for them.

I have been involved in church work for 57 years. I held some church positions but never wanted my fellow congregants influenced by my example. When I found some were watching I pointed them toward Christ Mentorship, not my poor facsimile.

Religious glitz and political glamour have deceived many. In a fish bowl, we see our reflection. We are not going to be rich by listening to a convincing speaker. The power of positive thinking means different things to different people.

‘Hello, why are you good people sitting next to the restaurant in the rain and cold,’ Preacher asked? ‘Have you no home, are you hungry,’ Preacher asked? ‘I will go in and order us food to take away and you can join me at my home for dinner and a shower…a good bed to rest your weary head,’ Preacher smiled and grabbed their outstretched hands.

‘I am sorry I took your seat at the head of the table, it seems right that you sit there,’ Elder said. ‘Your words are needed at the Board meeting,’ Elder said. ‘I can not follow you…you are eloquent,’ Elder said.

‘But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags, and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.’ Isaiah 64:6