CASSELBERRY, Fla. (WordNews.org) Jan. 24, 2012 – One goal Patrick Morley has is to get men connected ministries within their church.
“I’ve asked pastors all over the country: Do you have enough leaders? Would you like more leaders?”
Morley, the best-selling Christian author of the “Man in the Mirror” series, says the answers are always the same: Everybody raises their hand.
“’Would you like more men to populate your growth and discipleship ministries?’ Everybody raises their hands. ‘Do you have enough workers? Would you like more men to populate your service ministries’ Everybody raises their hands,” Morley said.
That’s where forging a new cycle comes in. [For more detail click here].
Morley wants his ministry to show churches how to move men from bystanders to participants. After participating in a six-week discussion group, he says, men are asked what they desire their next step to be.
“Do you want to grow more spiritually in your relationship with Jesus? Do you want to serve?”
Then, Morley says, men need to see what opportunities exist in a church.
But something happens when you seek to draw men to the next level.
“Every time you ask for one of these next commitments, people drop away.”
So, a large gather that kicked off the men’s group draws, say 100 men. Of those,67 attend a small group. Of those, just 10 decide they want to be more involved in some sort of growth group or some service ministry at the church.
“And you’re thinking, ‘Wow. This is a waste of time. I started with 100 guys and I’ve only got 10 guys left,” Morley says.
That, he adds, is the wrong perspective.
“We like to point out: How many men did you have actively involved before you got started? [If it was 50] now you have 60 men. That’s a 20 percent growth rate through only one cycle of the create-capture-sustain model and so any business man would say if you can get 20 percent return for a few months worth a work that is a fabulous investment.”
The cycle that starts with creating momentum, followed by capturing it and sustaining it ends by once again creating it.
“Why does the arrow go from sustain back up to create? asks Morley. “That’s because you just want to continue repeating the cycle over and over in different ways.”
But this time, he says, it isn’t as difficult to create that momentum.
“Once you get the flywheel turning, it’s obvsiously easier to speed it up and keep it going.”

Come back tomorrow when Patrick Morley tells how this model men first reached out to him. Patrick Morley: Pastors, do you have enough leaders? (Part  8)