For Pastors & Church Leaders

Launch a Men's Movement at Your Church

Everything you need: a 4-week sermon series to build momentum, then 12-week small groups to transform men. Complete campaign, ready to deploy.

Sermon Series ↓ Leader Guide ↓ Handouts ↓

Pastor, you see it every week. Men sitting in pews, checked out at home. Wives carrying the spiritual weight of their families. Kids growing up without engaged fathers. The epidemic of male passivity isn't just a cultural problem. It's sitting in your congregation.

Traditional men's ministry often falls flat because it doesn't address the root issue. Pancake breakfasts and fellowship events are fine, but they don't transform passive men into leaders. Your men need something different.

Lions Don't Bow exists to address this crisis. We've developed frameworks, protocols, and resources specifically designed to help men overcome passivity and step into biblical leadership. And we want to help you bring this to your church.

The Campaign Flow

  • Weeks 1-4: Sermon Series Four powerful messages delivered from the pulpit. Build awareness, cast vision, challenge men, and call them to commitment. Fill-in-the-blank listener guides included.
  • Week 4: Sign-Up Men commit to 12-week groups during or after the final sermon. Registration cards, follow-up process, facilitator assignments.
  • Weeks 5-16: Small Groups Facilitators lead men through the Warrior Protocols curriculum. Weekly meetings, accountability, action challenges, transformation.
  • Week 17+: Multiplication Transformed men become facilitators for the next round. The movement grows from within your church.

A domesticated man IS fatherlessness. Even when he's physically present.

The Movement

Lions Don't Bow isn't a program. It's a movement. A call for men to stop being passive, stop drifting, and start leading their families with conviction. The core message is simple:

  • Passivity Is Sin

    Adam sinned through passivity before Eve took the fruit. He stood there silent. Male passivity isn't a personality quirk. It's a failure to fulfill your calling.

  • Leadership Is Responsibility

    Men were designed to lead, protect, and provide. Not through dominance, but through sacrifice, presence, and initiative. Like Christ with the church.

  • Iron Sharpens Iron

    Men need other men. Isolation breeds passivity. Brotherhood creates accountability. Men grow when challenged by men who are in the fight with them.

  • No More Excuses

    Passive men are masters of justification. The movement demands honesty about patterns, excuses, and the damage passivity causes to families.

  • Action Over Talk

    Transformation requires doing, not just discussing. Every week ends with commitments. Every meeting asks: did you do what you said you'd do?

  • Faith Based Foundation

    This isn't secular self help with Christian language. It's grounded in Scripture, the nature of God designed masculinity, and Christ's example of sacrificial leadership.

Warrior Protocols

The Lions Don't Bow Warrior Protocols provide a structured curriculum for men's groups. These aren't passive study guides. They're action oriented frameworks designed to produce real change in men's lives.

Protocol Framework Overview

  • Phase 1: Awakening Confronting the reality of passivity. Identifying patterns. Understanding the cost to wife, children, and calling. Breaking through denial.
  • Phase 2: Identity Reclaiming masculine identity. Understanding God's design for men. Distinguishing leadership from dominance. Building conviction.
  • Phase 3: Action Moving from insight to behavior. Decision making. Hard conversations. Initiative. Consistency. Building new patterns through practice.
  • Phase 4: Leadership Spiritual leadership at home. Emotional presence. Protection. Provision. Becoming the man your family needs you to be.
  • Phase 5: Brotherhood Building lasting accountability. Supporting other men. Multiplying the movement. Men who lead create men who lead.

Each phase includes teaching content, discussion questions, practical assignments, and accountability structures. The protocols are designed to be facilitated by pastors, lay leaders, or trained volunteers.

COMPLETE CHURCH CAMPAIGN

Four weeks of sermons to build momentum, then 12-week groups to transform men. Implementation guide, movie clip suggestions, fill-in-the-blank listener guides, leader notes, and printable participant handouts. Everything you need.

4-Week Sermon Series 12-Week Leader Guide Participant Handouts

Starting a Group at Your Church

Keep It Small

Six to ten men maximum. Large groups breed passivity. Small groups create nowhere to hide. Every man speaks. Every man is seen.

Weekly Commitment

Consistency matters more than duration. Weekly meetings create momentum. Monthly meetings lose traction. Men show up or they don't.

Action Required

Every session ends with specific commitments. Next session starts with accountability. No passive participation allowed. Do the work.

Direct Leadership

The facilitator sets the tone. No coddling. No rescuing. Compassionate truth telling. Challenge matched with support.

Confidentiality

What's shared in group stays in group. Men won't be vulnerable without safety. Build trust through consistent discretion.

Invite Through Challenge

Don't recruit through comfort. Recruit through challenge. The men who respond to "This will be hard" are the men who will change.

Use Our Resources

Everything on Lions Don't Bow is designed to support men's transformation. Use these resources in your groups, sermons, or personal ministry:

Available Resources

Free content to support your men's ministry. No sales pitch. Just tools for the movement.

Articles The Problem The Solution Assessments Glossary Quotes

Articles can be assigned as pre-reading or discussion starters. Assessments help men identify their specific patterns. The Problem and The Solution pages articulate the core message for men new to the movement.

Share freely. Copy what's useful. Adapt to your context. The goal isn't brand building. It's men leading their families.

What Makes This Different

This isn't about studying manhood. It's about becoming men.

Most men's ministry fails because it stays in the head. Information without transformation. Discussion without action. Fellowship without accountability.

The Lions Don't Bow approach is different. It confronts. It challenges. It refuses to let men stay comfortable in their passivity. It creates environments where change isn't optional. Where excuses are called out. Where men sharpen men through direct, loving challenge.

Your men don't need another program. They need a band of brothers committed to becoming who they were created to be. They need to stop bowing.

Lions Don't Bow

Not to culture. Not to comfort. Not to their own passivity.

Join the Movement

Have questions about starting a men's group? Want to connect about bringing this to your church? Reach out. We're building something bigger than any single ministry.

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