Leading Leaders

What's Beneath Your Mild-Mannered Alter Ego?

The Paradox mission continues by leading leaders of church plants through five ongoing processes.

Process 1: Spiritual Vitality

“Unless the Lord builds the house, its’ builders labor in vain.” —Psalm 127:1. We support the planter with prayer, faith, and encouragement so church planters stay close to God amidst the seemingly endless work of planting a church.

Process 2: Training

Unfortunately, most training for church planters is simplistic and shallow. With ongoing seminars that meet real needs, address the tough questions of church planting, and offer working strategies for impactful ministries.

Process 3: Cohort Coach

There are other planters who have been where you are. We help you create a cohort of coaches to glean from their experience and encouragement.

Process 4: Caring

It is very easy to feel alone while planting a church. We provide care for pastor, spouse, and family in the good, bad, and the absolutely normal times of church planting. Paradox regularly contacts our planters and creates opportunity to regularly connect with other planters.

Process 5: Creativity

An author makes a career out of three or four inspiring moments of creativity. A musician can make a career with three or four inspiring creative albums a decade. A church planter needs three or four moments of creativity a month just in preaching. Add to that the need inject creativity to ministries, outreach, advertising, and even church models; church plant pastor need to be extremely creative people. Together, we learn and inspire each other toward greater creativity.

Result:

With the ongoing processes of devotion, training, coaching, caring, and creativity; church plant leaders will be giving the tools to best impact their communities for Christ while creating a sustainable system of ministry. But the Paradox mission does not end there; we must reach reachers.

Our focus is on starting, assisting, and leading multiplication ministries dedicated to Jesus Christ. A multiplication ministry is one that is thinking beyond the needs within its particular group and thinking about reproducing itself in others even as it begins.

From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it. - Jesus (Mt 11:12)