Leadership Team: Roadblock or Accelerator continued from page 5 ▶ coffee, share your vision, and see if God isn’t working on their heart, too. Next, start to meet regularly with the men you collect through your conversations. As your team grows, have them come with you or invite men on their own to coffee to do the same. And keep getting together. Don’t meet to plan and strategize. Meet to pray and study God’s Word. Meet to have fun and enjoy each other. Get your families together a few times. Start dreaming. Talk about your vision for discipling men in the church. What would it look like if every man in the church had an opportunity to grow in his faith? What would the impact be on families and marriages? On giving and serving? On outreach and missions? Then, when you’re ready, get trained. Come to a training or go to nomanleftbehind.org and use the online courseware. Find the closest Area Director or Field Representative and he will help your leadership team build a strategy based on proven principles for engaging men in discipleship. Do you want to break the “roller coaster” cycle of the typical men’s ministry? To build a sustainable, effective, and impactful ministry that makes disciples, it all starts with a leadership team. Build a team of brothers. You’ll change your life. You’ll change your church. You might even change the world. 5 Stuff happens. When a men’s discipleship ministry is going well, only to suddenly begin to evaporate, often we can trace it back to the departure of one or two dynamic leaders. Their job changed or there was a family illness. Without a team of leaders around them there’s no one to pick up the slack. Building a strong and diverse leadership team builds resilience into your system to overcome the loss of a key man. Plus, if this man is hurting, he has a team to surround and minister to him as well. Building a Leadership Team Recruiting a team of men to build and implement your men’s discipleship strategy is not quickly done well. It takes time to identify and recruit men. You need to build trust and authentic relationships. You want to make sure you are finding men who can help understand the various kinds of men in the church. The keys are prayer and time. If you don’t have any kind of leadership team or focused men’s discipleship ministry in your church, this could—and probably should—take a year. First, pray that the Lord would give you a clear vision, a compelling case, and the wisdom to know who you should approach. Then start asking guys out for 60
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