Who Are We?

Metro Grand Rapids CBMC Focus Group Directory

CBMC Ministry Overview

The Purpose of CBMC:

To present Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord to business and professional men, and
To develop Christian business and professional men to carry out the Great Commission.

The purpose in two words is to Present & Develop
The purpose in four words is to Present Christ & Develop People

The Vision of CBMC:

For all men in our movement to experience:

• The Power of One God
• The Value of One Man
• The Leverage of One Team

Resulting in Spiritual Reproduction among Businessmen throughout the world.

"The fields are ripe for harvest!"

    Men's needs are growing. We all must deal with stress in the areas of time management, money, job security, career development and family—to name just a few. Increasing rates of abuse and addiction to alcohol and other drugs, divorce, and "white-collar" unemployment confirm that many men are especially in need of hearing about Jesus and seeing Him living again through other men.

Men & Money:
We recognize that doing more, as we expand to the open architecture, will require more resources, specifically, more men and money. We are confident that God will provide both if we are serving in His will.
    If you are a Christ-follower who would like to have more information or desire to be a part of the CBMC ministry network by participating at any point, we welcome you. We need your ideas as we continue to develop new programs to meet men's needs.
    Ministry Financial Partners are needed who will invest $10, $100, or $1000 per month to help cover staff salaries and the expenses of the Grand Rapids Metro office. They are also investing in the research, development and distribution of ministry tools and services by the CBMC of USA Ministry Resource Centre.
    This investment produces - great ERI - eternal return on investment. Philippians 4:17

Dr. Howard Hendricks, a professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, said, "God has brought CBMC into the Kingdom for such a time as this."
    He says that the 20 million business and professional men influence 150 million in their businesses and families.
    He also says that there are 26 million men in church on any given Sunday and that most are not enjoying the Abundant Life and living the Great Commandment, the New Commandment, or fulfilling the Great Commission. We can serve them!
    CBMC of USA has 18,000 members and partners and 50,000 are involved in one or more aspects of the ministry each year. CBMC International is found in over 70 countries. CBMC is a network of business and professional people who invest their lives in something that will last forever.

EVANGELISM - Farming: Cultivating, Sowing, and Harvesting
    We cultivate relationships with pre-Christians and allow them to see firsthand the power of God in our changed lives.
DISCIPLESHIP - Parenting: Baby, Child, Adolescent, Adult & seeking Christlikeness
    This is NOT a PROGRAM but a long PROCESS.

2. ESTABLISHING & EQUIPPING THE TEAMS:
The primary CBMC resources are the four Operation Timothy books, the Leaders Guide, and Living Proof I Evangelism and Living Proof II Discipleship.
    Living Proof I Evangelism and Living Proof II Discipleship: A Foundation gave $600,000 to develop each of these twelve-week video series. Several denominations and churches are using them all across the country. 1^st Baptist in Atlanta used them in all Small Groups, as a base for its evangelism and discipleship program.

We also offer studies related to issues of everyday life:
Marriage: Fanning the Flame; Intimate Encounters; Unlimited Partnership
Finances: Financial First Steps and Crown Ministries
Work: Why Go to Work; Life Purpose; The Call of God for Every Christian; Margin; Eternal Impact, and other study guides.

cbmcFORUMS can serve as a Christian Board of Directors for five to eight business owners or managers who meet 4-5 hours once a month.

God is using these tools all across the country, as He raises up men and couples for each area of service.

3. MOBILIZING MINISTRY ACTION TEAMS
    MINISTRY EXPANSION:
CBMC is a ministry that facilitates the work of individuals and couples as they serve the business and professional community individually or through ministry action teams.
    These ministry action teams need to be clear about their purpose and pragmatic about the strategy with which they go about achieving it.

Accountability Team
CBMC men are encouraged to be part of an accountability team. These teams of two to five men meet monthly or at least bimonthly for open, vulnerable accountability for Christ-like growth. We need one another, to lift up and build up one another. We each have different spiritual gifts and abilities.

Potential Participation Points
CBMC's flexibility is best described as an open architecture ministry network that is solid at the core (Purpose, Vision & Mission) but fluid at the fringes (Method). A man can participate at any point that he desires in a program that truly meets his felt needs.
    We desire for men to become aware of the CBMC Ministry, understand it, agree with it, align with its objectives, believe it is achievable and then move to meaningful involvement.
    If we desire to multiply many teams and laborers for Grand Rapids and beyond, we need a world vision with a focus on the individual. Each core team member with his own team.

4. SPIRITUAL REPRODUCTION - BEARING FRUIT:
John 15:1-16 goes from - no fruit, to fruit, to much fruit, to fruit that remains, "bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples."
    For 70 years, evangelism has been a hallmark of CBMC. Over the last 25 years, CBMC has seen the need to build or disciple believers into laborors to share Christ, to help others grow and began to reproduce their own life. "Pray for laborers to go into the harvest."
    We need laborers to become leaders. They would know the whole process and be able to reproduce the process of seeing others: come to Christ, to grow and to multiply.

The Process: Pray, Win, Build, & Send
The Product: Men of Prayer, New Believers, Laborers, & Leaders yielding spiritual reproducers (2 Tim 2:2 & Isa. 60:22)

The Leader & His Team:
The key is effective leadership that models the way of ministry.

Three Choices:
1. We can help good men do something.
2. We can help good men do the right thing.
3. We can help good men do the right thing effectively!