Replicate.

Education is not always enough, sometimes apprenticeship is required.

This is something that the government is starting to become aware of as the nation is becoming increasingly well educated while simultaneously suffering from a lack of skilled workers (i.e. plumbers, builders, etc). Academia is all well and good but it needs to be balanced with the development of practical skills within a nations workforce.

This is also the case in our faith. Building our faith is not an academic venture where we study and then pass an exam; it has always been an apprenticeship. While we are equipped with a 'manual' (although the Bible operates like no other manual that you have experienced) we are called to accept our apprenticeship [discipleship] in faith where we learn from each other.

"Summing it all up, friends, I'd say you'll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious - the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies." Phil 4:8-9 (Msg)

As you can see, this is no modern invention; it's not simply the case that mentoring has suddenly come into vogue.

So do we sit around and wait for an inspiring man or woman of God to find us?
No, it is up to us. God will use different people at different time to mentor us in different ways. At the minute I would say that I am being mentored by my Pastor (to whom I am directly responsible - here he is smiling now), friends (who's faith filled attitudes have been sculpting my own) and even Kyle Lake (who, even though he is no longer with us, has been greatly influencing my life through his preaching and writing).
It doesn't matter if you have just found Christ or whether you are an experienced pastor, we are all in need of a mentor. Find someone who reflects Christ, who's life can benefit yours and cause you to grow, and then learn from them.