Developing Spiritual and Missional Leaders
An Advanced Leadership Cohort
STRENGTHEN YOUR LEADERSHIP
MINISTER TO MORE PEOPLE IN BETTER WAYS
TELL ME MORE.
The Leadership Cohort is a high-level group-based learning experience, designed specifically for pastors and church leaders with at least five years of pastoral experience. Our cohort offers training, peer support, and personalized guidance to help you lead with confidence, clarity, and courage.
TELL ME WHY THIS COHORT IS IMPORTANT.
Your church will only grow to the capacity of its leaders in the same way you can only put 16 ounces of water in an 16 ounce bottle. Once the capacity is filled, you’re done.
- What would it look like if the spiritual and missional capacity of the church expanded?
- What would this increased capacity do for you personally?
- How would your church be able to minister to more people in better ways?
- How would this impact the community?
This is the emphasis of the cohort.
WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED.
One of the observations that we have made in working with hundreds of churches over the years is that churches grow on the edges.
“The front edge is evangelism and gathering new people; the back edge is leadership development. When we evangelize and gather new people, we grow the church. When we raise up and multiply leaders, we grow the capacity of the church to minister to more people in better ways.”
TELL ME THE DESIRED OUTCOME.
Through our proven process of 25 years you will discover, develop, and deploy leaders from your existing congregation. With few exceptions, there are people sitting in your pews waiting to be mobilized into ministry. They are waiting on you to give them the appropriate challenge and support to do what God has called them to do.
TELL ME WHAT I WILL LEARN.
This cohort is designed to help you develop or hone about 45 skills in three areas: character, knowledge, and skill. These skills are grouped into six rungs and two rails to form a Leadership Ladder. This holistic approach is biblical and practical.
THE LEADERSHIP LADDER AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT
Here is a sample of the skills you will develop in your people:
- Accepting to live and lead by love.
- Embracing trials and resisting temptations of ministry.
- Developing wise and mature decision making
- Learning to share my story.
- Learning different ways to apply Scripture.
- Mobilizing people into ministry rather than recruiting them to pre-determined ministry slots.
- Creating personal mission fields.
- Experimenting with missional activities.
- Discovering, developing, and deploying leaders.
- Creating a multiplication mindset with your leaders.
- Creating a discipleship process.
TELL ME WHAT YOU HAVE OBSERVED.
- We see a new found energy and hope with the pastors who participated in this cohort.
- We have seen leadership capacity triple.
- We have seen people who have never been involved in ministry get involved.
- We have seen congregants having conversations with their neighbors and friends because they prayed and cared for them.
- We witnessed a VBS program revamped with astounding results. Prior to the reorganization, they had about 40 kids attend, now they have over 125. Simply becacuse they got the right people in the right seats on the right bus from the congregation.
- We have seen pastors learn how to appropriately challenge their people to get them on mission. We have seen how their congregation positively responded.
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:
- Your energy: The cost of having limited leadership that drains you.
- Your time: The cost of not knowing how to fix the problem in spite of multiple attempts.
- Your congregation’s identity: The cost of people in your neighborhood not knowing you.
- Your health: The physical toll of pastoring alone that sucks the life out of you
- The freedom that comes from figuring it out
- The financial burden: The cost of not developing sustainable leaders over the long haul.
The investment is $1,000 It includes:
- All materials
- One cohort call each month. 75 minutes.
- Call to Actions each month with accountability.
- Access to us through phone, text, or email to answer questions or to help you over the hump.