Recognize the Compelling Need

Help Your Team Capture the Vision. To be effective, a leadership team needs to catch the vision for men's ministry. The following paragraphs will help tune the hearts of your team into the importance of producing spiritually mature men. The following are suggestions that will help them catch the vision.

What Do We Want the Next Generation of Leaders to Look Like? Ask pastors what they would like to see in their men in five areas discipleship. Is your church producing men like this?

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The Discipling Process through Christ-Centered Relationships. A one page chart showing the steps in making a disciple and the tools that can be used.

Developing Men as Spiritual Leaders in Their Home. The biblical basis, the research, the barriers, and where to start.

Developing Men for Personal Ministry. The biblical basis, the research, the barriers, and where to start.

Men's Ministry by the Numbers. Fourteen ways to define men in America. Not an encouraging view.

The Needs of Contemporary Men. A description of the needs of men in Americ, in genera, and men in the church taken from Man in the Mirror research, a survey of Alliance pastors and men's ministry leaders and Kloppman, Men's Ministry in a Small Church.

Recognize the Challenge. Statistics from the census and polls that compare the men in the pew and the men in the general population.

What is an Effective Men's Ministry? Consider for a moment the letter grade you would assign to your church's ministry to men. Top score is A and the worst score would be an F. Do not stop to qualify the question. Using your personal criteria, give it a grade.

Missing Fathers of the Church. An article by historian Leon Podles on the feminization of the church and the need for Christian fatherhood. Podles is the author of Church Impotent, a book that traces the History of the feminization of the church.

The Battle for the Hearts of Men An article by George Barna from New Man Magazine, Vol 4, No 1, (January/February 1997) pages 40-44. It remains pertinante today in terms of the condition of unchurched men and ways to reach them.

The Peter Pan Syndrome." a brief review of Guyland by Michael Kimmel concerning the challenges boys face in making the transition from teenager to adulthood in today's culture. (from Family Life, March 2010)