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Create the Plan for Achieving the Vision
- Roadmap for Discipling Men - A five step roadmap for discipling men.
- Roadmap for an Effective Men's Ministry - A nine-step roadmap to build an effective men's ministry.
- Strategy for achieving Combat Readiness - Because we are engaged in spiritual warfare, consider adapting the military's method of rating the combat readiness of its units. This rating system considers the effectiveness of training, the availability of proper equipment for the unit's mission, awareness of the enemy's capabilities, demonstrated ability to apply the strategy and tactics for defeating the enemy, and the health and morale of the personnel.
- Men's Ministry Buffet - The chart in the attached document suggests the type of men to consider when planning men's activities. Variations in focus will depend on where the men are in the context of relationships within the fellowship and their spiritual condition.Strategy Worksheet
- With Men - Be intentional by Dave Stevanus, Florida Men of Integrity. Most men's ministries fail, not for lack of heart but for lack of intentionality. Historically, men's ministries in modern churches have not seen long and sustained lives. This is because they have operated in one of two ways. They occasionally hold an event generating lots of excitement and enthusiasm which fades quickly, or they start and top over and over again. Either way when the emotion fades away so does the ministry and after enough false starts church leadership adopts a "been there done that" attitude. They lose sight of the importance of ministry for men and rightly do not want to continue an unsuccessful ministry.
- Where are the Men? Even a cursory reading of Scripture reveals that God is looking for men. Ezekiel 22:30 says, "I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land that I might not destroy it, but I found no one." God is looking for men with humble hearts; men who will sacrifice anything for Christ and the advancement of His Kingdom.
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