Often, it seems we read the Great Commission as, “Wait for men to come and then see if hanging around the church helps them become disciples and teaches them to obey everything I have commanded you.” But Jesus said, “Go and make…”
Most of us are desperate for deeper relationships. For too long, we’ve been lulled to sleep by comfort, digital entertainment, and shallow connections. Soul friends awaken our lives to new possibilities of more meaningful human experience.
The tragedy of loneliness is that without friends, life starts to feel like one huge obligation. For this is not the time of maximum mastery. It is the time of maximum need—for friends, for help, for clarity, for forgiveness, and for God.
You want to disciple men this year and we want to help. We surveyed hundreds of men’s leaders and pastors around the country about their ministries, and the results are in. Here are the primary obstacles reported, along with some solutions!
We can’t control what will happen to us in 2021. But we can make the choice to stand firm in our faith in Jesus Christ. We can make the choice to keep our focus on Him. And we can make the choice to enter this new year consecrated to Him.
It feels dark today for many. It’s not your imagination. The world IS dark. It was dark then too—for Joseph, for the wise men, for the shepherds. Jesus came into a dark world 2000 years ago and brought LIGHT. And the Light shines today.
How God brought one man out of extreme violence and addiction to new, vibrant life in Him through the support and love of a local pastor. “It’s Christ and Christ alone; He does the saving, He does the healing; He does the fixing.”
If you’re like most men, you’re probably used to letting the Christmas season just happen. But with this year’s challenges, adjustments, and losses, we want to help you form a foolproof plan to make this a special Christmas for your family.
As men have struggled in 2020, we’ve seen increases in suicide rates, domestic violence, substance abuse, and pornography use. But just as a struggling man changes everything around him, so does a man transformed by Christ!
When they consider all the twists and turns of the last 10 years, it’s obvious that God has been driving their ministry the whole time, taking them in directions they’d never imagined along the way, all to see no man left behind.
Yes, we are called to do good works, but we were missing the command to ‘go and make disciples’—we were a social club, not a men’s ministry. And because we weren’t making disciples, men got burned out and left. But then everything changed.
By sharpening their focus on this one aspect of their men’s ministry strategy, one leadership team in Michigan transformed and grew their entire church.
Since 1986, Man in the Mirror has worked with more than 25,000 churches and millions of men. We help churches create an environment where the Holy Spirit inspires men to engage in life-on-life discipleship.
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