Ministering to More People in Better Ways

Your church will only grow to the capacity of its leadership. Really.

LIVE MISSIONALLY

This step is the key to leadership development and ministering to more people in better ways.

  • Character formed: Learning to live and lead through love. Emphasis on loving people for who they are, not what they do or believe.
  • Knowledge acquired: Learning to receive his love so it overflows from me to others.
  • Skills developed:
    • Pastor – Communicate missional values
    • People – Develop personal missional fields where they live, work, study, or play. Identify an meet community neeeds and experiment with missional activity. They will create a culture of sharing life together in ways that are attractive to lost people.

MAKING DISCIPLES

This step is often overlooked in leadership development and ministering to more people in better ways.

  • Character formed: Using the gospel to shape the person’s character.  Emphasis on the power of the resurrection and new life.
  • Knowledge acquired: Recognizing cues to be at the right place at the right time.
  • Skills developed:
    • Pastor – Communicate The Great Commission. Move towards Christian Living and away from Christian Education. Create a discipleship process.
    • People – Engage in spiritual conversations where they live, work, study, or play. Make a simple gospel presentation and invite people to make a commitment.

MOBILIZING MINISTRY

This step is often about filling slots rathering than mobilizing people according to their gifting, passion, and personality.

  • Character formed: Using the spiritual disciplines to align actions, priorities, beliefs, and heart to God.  Emphasis on the power of habit to drive conforming to his image.
  • Knowledge acquired: Learning to teach and apply God’s word in ways that make sense.
  • Skills developed:
    • Pastor – Develop a culture of serving. Teach leaders the cues to mobilize others.  Create a system to organize the spiritual gifts of your people. Place your people where they will thrive.
    • People – Discover their spiritual gifts.

LEADING MINISTRY

This step is often about teaching others to take responsibility for a ministry they love and developing their skill to lead it.

  • Character formed: Becoming more Christ-like in the way people respond to trials and temptations. Emphasis on recognition and self-awareness.
  • Knowledge acquired: Learning to share your story of your relationship with God.
  • Skills developed:
    • Pastor – Lead in all of life. Identify the roles that need to be filled. Create a leadership community. Discover, develop, and deploy leaders.
    • People – Lead in all of life. Be open to learning how to develop new skills, having a mentor, and being challenged.

LEADING LEADERS

This step is about shifting the Pastor’s mindset from overseeing workers to shepherding leaders.

  • Character formed: Develop mature and wise decision making. Emphasis on discernment.
  • Knowledge acquired: Teaching others on how to effectively apply the Bible.
  • Skills developed:
    • Pastor – Learn how to apprentice, mentor, and coach your people to be the best they can be.

MULTIPLYING MINISTRY

This step is about being courageous and stepping out to multiply God’s work.

  • Character formed: Use the gospel to redeem core issue, competing values, and limiting beliefs.
  • Knowledge acquired: Learn the importance of what is at stake with doctrine.
  • Skills developed:
    • Pastor – Develop a multiplication mindset. Identify and prepare the leaders and team.
    • People – Overcoming limiting beliefs. Plan for success.

FAQs

The Ministering to More People in Better Ways Cohort is a transformational 12-month program designed specifically for pastors who want to develop leaders so that their church can minister to more people in better ways. You will build biblical character, knowledge, and skill into your leaders so that they can:

Live missionally: This step, often overlooked, is the key to leadership development and ministering to more people in better ways. You will learn to use the gospel to shape their character and thoughts about how to love people for who they are, not what they do or believe. Skills will be developed to create personal missional fields and to create a culture of sharing life together in ways that are attractive to lost people.

Make disciples: This step is overlooked too. Leaders must make disciples. If they don’t, who will? You will learn to use the gospel to shape their character and thoughts so they will be equipped to be “there” at the right place and at the right time to have a spiritual conversation and eventually share the gospel. Skills will also be developed to create a discipleship process so that your people’s hearts and minds grow closer to Jesus as they obey his will.

Mobilize into ministry: As people move into active ministry, you will help them to continue to shape their character so they stay close and sensitive to God. This key point is essential for fruitful and lasting service. You will also use Scripture to shape their thinking on serving, leading, and mobilizing. Skills developed here include assessing how their gifting, passion, and personality impact serving God and their community.

Lead a ministry: Trials and temptations pop up more often when a person is leading a ministry. You will use the gospel and biblical wisdom to shape their character to resist temptations and embrace trials. Often times when leading a ministry, the leaders will need to share a simple gospel message. They learn how here. You will also develop the skills to form a healthy leadership community for your church.

Lead leaders: Making mature godly decisions when facing crises, problems, relationships, and ways to spend time and money is part of the character of a leader who leads leaders. Leaders will be coming to them for guidance and wisdom with these issues. They will also learn how to apply the Bible to their lives before applying it to others. They will develop the skill to apprentice, mentor, and coach those who they are leading.

Multiply ministries: Core issues and limiting beliefs often appear when a leader plans a new a work, whether it’s church plant, a church ministry, or a non-profit. You will use the gospel and biblical wisdom to help them overcome these. Leaders starting new works must also be firm in doctrine. This is where they learn and polish their beliefs so they may pass them on to those in their new work. Skills you will develop to pass on to your leaders will be how to identify others to join the work, cast vision, pick an appropriate model, and establish plans and timelines.

It takes time to develop the skill to develop leaders. A lot of time.

We have found that you can’t rush developing skill like you can acquiring knowledge.

Remember suicide Greek? You were trained to jam to ton of Greek into your head in a very short period of time, but how long did it take for you to become skilled and effective in using it in your sermon prep?  It took a lot of time of consistently working with the language to really become skilled at using it.

Same is true here. We are not interested in jamming a bunch of content into your head. However, we are VERY interested in developing your skill.

On average, about two to three hours a week.

When pricing “Ministering to More People in Better Ways” we considered the following:

  1. Your energy: The cost of having limited leadership that drains you.
  2. Your time: The cost of not knowing how to fix the problem in spite of multiple attempts.
  3. Your congregation’s identity: The cost of people in your neighborhood not knowing you.
  4. Your health: The physical toll of pastoring alone that sucks the life out of you
  5. The freedom that comes from figuring it out
  6. The financial burden: The cost of not developing sustainable leaders over the long haul.

The investment is $2,400. It includes:

  • All materials
  • One cohort call every six weeks. This is discussion based.
  • One one-on-one call bi-weekly. This is applying the discussion to your context.

You will have eight cohort calls and 16 one-on-one calls throughout the year.

What Others Are Saying

“It’s often said that every Christian needs a Paul, a Barnabas, and a Timothy relationship in their life. I think this is especially relevant to anyone ministering through our churches. Pastors and ministers are called to be living examples of Christian growth. Too often, continuing education that resembles the relationship Paul had for Timothy is subjugated to an occasional conference or seminar that only solidifies our strengths but also feeds a comfortable bias.

David Zook and Ken Priddy have developed a tremendous opportunity to mentor pastors and staff. Their years of practical experiences have taught them truths that transcend so much of the usual denominational discussions. These guys point back to God’s Word first as their foundation, applies it to daily discussions, and then applies it to future goals both for the church and the members.

I highly recommend the partnership that they offer in pastoring the pastors and mentoring a new staff member. This type of continual education is especially critical as our culture continues to accelerate in changing!”

Jim Helman
Pastor/Church Planter
Downtown Phoenix Church/DTPHXCHURCH

“I’ve known pastor David Zook since 2018 when I started serving as Governing Board Member at Creighton School District. Pastor Zook also serves our School District in many different ways, as well as our community.

This past July he called me to ask how I was, and I opened up to him, sharing not only about our ministry accomplishments but also about certain frustrations.

He then told me he wanted to help me get back on track by re-aligning our church leadership. I wasn’t sure what it was, but I knew I needed help.

It’s been an exciting journey being a part of “Ministering to More People in Better Ways”, full of brainstorming and development of ideas. In very short time we’re moving forward and the refreshing is constant and measurable.

Thank you, dear friend Pastor David Zook, for making yourself available and thanks to your sources for providing what’s needed in order for us to receive such a blessed formation. To God be all the glory!”

Angel Campos
Pastor, Monte Vista Cross Cultural Church
Phoenix Arizona