BROTHERHOOD OF MEN WHO PRAY: September 2009

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Developing an Effective Men's Ministry in the Church

There are many ways to develop an effective men's ministry. In this narrative, please find some of my thoughts on the process and structure. First, support of the pastor and support of the men who will initially participate in developing the ministry is a must. Secondly, safe space must be created in concert with a conversational environment that values the thoughts and views of others. You must develop group and one-on-one mentoring, leadership, coaching, and relationship building activities. Men must encourage and support each other in their individual endeavors and conduct a men’s bible study and reflection sessions. There should also be church leadership training that helps men discover their gifts, talents and abilities so that they may find a place of service in the church. If you have any other thoughts, please feel free to comment.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Take Time to Give Encourgement!

As I watch the financial news of today and witness how families struggle to stay together and to love each other, I cannot help but stop and pray for those families, and wish that the man of the house will not give up hope, for we all need to be strong.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things
1 Corinthians 13:7 (New King James Version)

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The Greatest Gift

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, it profits me nothing.4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. 13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13 (New King James Version)