Next Steps

As we have traversed and travailed along the journey of getting a group of potential leaders for a men's ministry a funny thing happened: we became a community kind of.  A group of guys with diverse ideas about life and the spiritual life and spiritual leaders and men's ministry and ministry to men and how we fulfill the great commission and the great commandment and what the life of the church means and whether or not the factory is working and what the problem with men is and what the church is going to do about it.  We've had great discussions and we had an overnight.  We've studied books and we have seen things happened that otherwise would not have.  We have seen things come and probably already seen some of them go already.  (Prayer dots, maybe?).

So where are we now?  What do we know?

We've seen a couple of action verbs surface:

Equip-

A group of guys who are leading groups or who are interested in leading groups found some tools and learned about them with a collective consciousness so now we can move forward withe shared language and methods.

Fellowship-

We like getting together with a group of guys we would not have chosen for ourselves to learn more about each other and the way of Christ.  We share scriptural understanding, our experiences, our understanding of our tradition, and we reason things through.

We have had a core value that we want to honor:

We will have an end date.  We will be open to what happens after that as a good outcome, but the weekly meetings need to come to an end so that new things can begin.

So we will determine when the end date is and plan ways that we can continue to work and live together around our objectives of connecting men to each other and to us and to the cause of Christ.

We'll talk a little bit about these ideas on 3.6.09 and then more extensively on 3.13.09 and decide what to do then.

What other action verbs have you seen emerge from our group?

What other core values do we need to honor as this process of growing in community develops?