March 2007 C&MA Men’s E-Newsletter
Impact
One of our men received a phone call one morning from a fellow who had worked with him on a church project. The caller stated that his wife had just served him with divorce papers and he needed to talk. They met that morning and for over two hours went through scriptures. Our man encouraged his friend to go home and discuss what they had gone through. The friend called later that afternoon and asked him if he could meet with both he and his wife. They met that evening and as a result both the man and his wife surrendered their lives to the Lord and the divorce action was canceled.
God is always at work! What is He doing in your life? Send your testimonies to editor@cmamen.org.
Pray for Men's Ministry on Thursdays
News
The National Leadership Team met in Dallas, TX, January 26, 2007. The team took the following actions:
Identified actions needed during 2007
- Develop a leadership team mission and vision.
- Develop a mission driven budget.
- Improve communications.
- Bring greater ethnic and geographic balance to the leadership Team.
- Define the function and purpose of the annual meeting of the district coordinators.
Alliance Construction Team
- Welcomed Vance Bartleson to the leadership team as coordinator of the Alliance Construction Team ministry.
- Made recommendations related to insuring volunteers and OSHA compliance.
- Reviewed the ACT Handbook and authorized the ACT Board of Advisors to fine-tune it for release.
Annual District Coordinator Forum. Twelve men representing eleven districts and five national coordinators met in Dallas, TX, January 26-28, 2007. The Forum took the following actions:
- Voted to ask the C&MA Board of Directors to move the C&MA Men’s Ministry Constitution from the C&MA Manual to the National Church Ministry Policy and Procedures Manual.
- Voted to change the tenure of the leadership team from three to four years.
- Brainstormed ways the national leadership team can assist district leadership teams in carrying out support of local men’s ministries. The ideas generated were prioritized into three areas of concern: communications, resources and leadership training.
- Rev. Tom Selfik, associate pastor, First Alliance Church, Port Charlotte, FL, provided attendees with five hours of training on how to start and lead small groups.
Life
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Leadership
Which Men’s Ministry Model Should We Use? We note with interest that the United Methodist Men have encouraged the pastors and men’s leaders in their denomination to use the “No Man Left Behind” (NMLB) model. There are a number of excellent models available, NMLB among them. C&MA Men’s Ministry encourages churches to prayerfully evaluate other models that are available, e.g., Top Gun and HonorBound (Blueprint) and select the one that will work the best in your situation.
NCMM Spring Conference 2007 - April 12-14, 2007
A comprehensive “Best of the Best” Leadership Conference on Ministering to Men in Liberty, MO. For all ministry leaders, denominational leaders, men’s ministry pastors and leaders, bands of brothers. Speakers include Steve Ferrar, Gary |
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Rosberg, Joseph Garlington, Rick Kingham and Crawford Loritts, Jr. Visit www.ncmm.org for more details or call 425-284-2541.
Events Across the Country in 2007
Whether it's for men's personal spiritual development or to train leaders, Man in the Mirror has over 60 events lined up across the country in 2007. From Orlando to Spokane, Southern California to New Jersey, there's probably an event near you! Click here to see a |
schedule.
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Reboot (with 1 Samuel 17:49-50) Finishing the Job
The Enemy: The minions of the enemy are powerless without their champion. A Bible note speculates that the Philistines fled because they saw Goliath’s death as the judgment of the gods. The Philistines failed to comply with Goliath’s compact.
The enemy suffered a head injury. “He will crush his head and you will strike his heel.” (Gen 3:15): Upon being hit by a stone the size of a baseball, Goliath’s head would have whipped back and he would have fallen back. However, Goliath was moving forward. In addition, the weight of his armor would have been on the front. With loss of consciousness his knees buckled and he fell forward, face down.
The World: The army of Israel and Judah came alive having been energized by David’s victory.
The army plundered the Philistine camp, the world's way of ensuring that the weapons of the enemy would not be used against them again. In addition, the Philistines had a monopoly on the production of iron weapons. The Israelites were limited to bronze spears and swords (1 Sam 13:16-22). The Philistine weapons were now available to the Israelites.
The Spiritual Warrior: He ran and stood over Goliath. He showed no fear. He pursued the enemy with out weapons of hand to hand combat in the event that Goliath was only stunned and recovered.
Carry Through: He killed the giant and then cut off his head, He finished the job in contrast to Saul who failed to kill all of the Amelikites (1 Sam 15:9). He made sure the job was done.
He used the enemies own weapon to kill him.
He elevated the evidence of victory – celebration.
He put Goliath’s weapons in his own tent – a reminder of what the Lord had done.
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.”
Winston Churchill
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