September 2007
Men’s Ministry Best Practices: Avoiding Common Failures
Priorities in Pillar 4: Feeding the Flock and Reaching out to the Community
The two biggest priorities in men's ministry as you look at Pillar 4 ( the Programs) are feeding the guys in your church (the "flock") and reaching out to the community.
You may have a great men's discipleship program and gather your guys in authentic community in small groups, but if you don't balance that with ways to invite unchurched guys to participate you run the risk of being inwardly focused. Likewise, if you have a number of outreach events on your calendar but don't have any ongoing ways to grow your guys and connect them to other men where they can get real, your men's ministry isn't getting the discipleship job done.
We recommend you start feeding the flock by creating weekly, monthly, and quarterly discipleship opportunities for either one-on-one or groups of men. We are talking about creating intimate engagements with brothers, Christ and the word of God. This is the foundation for your men's ministry. Your goal should be to feed your men so they get healed, get trained, and then get sent into service.
Your second priority is reaching out to the community. Now that your foundation is set with weekly, monthly, and quarterly programs, you can plan and execute entry points into your discipleship process and flow the brothers into a healthy, productive, foundation. Read the article in Outreach Corner for a suggestion on planning one of those entry points.
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