Pursue a Paul

I once heard the following three lines:

Pursue a Paul
Be a Barnabas
Train a Timothy

The "Paul" in one's life is like a spiritual mentor, while being the "Barnabas" embraces the role of encourager, and the trainer role would involve discipling.

Maybe we could extend the first line to include looking to Paul as an example, as a mentor. There's an article up at Boundless called "Praying Like Paul," by Rachel Starr Thomson. She ends the article with this:

In his Ephesian prayer, Paul prayed "that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith." Ultimately, this is my greatest prayer for the church. That we would walk with God. That by faith, we would reach out and find that Christ is truly "Emmanuel" — truly with us. That by faith, we might know Jesus Christ in an intimate, life-changing way. As Paul wrote in Ephesians 3:18, "that we might be filled with all the fullness of God."

In the end, that is what I really want.