The 12 Best Practices
Your Personal Roadmap for
Spiritual & Whole-life
Wellness, & Being the Man
God Intends You to Be.
"The Lone Wolf Syndrome is
the lie of false manhood."
Dr. Andrew D. Whaley
Men’s Leadership Community
12 Best Practices
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The MLC Story
Learn the story of how God initiated the MLC during the height of COVID in the midst of shelter in place
and social distancing to bring together a band of brothers who were in desperate need
to build authentic manly community together!
Our Central Paradigm Shift
Step into a fresh new chapter in your Hero’s Journey and see life in a whole new way by engaging
our central paradigm shift - “Jesus at the Center!” based on Acts 17:28, rather than continuing to follow
the classic human pattern of a hierarchy of priorities!
Discovering Your Personal Vision, Mission, & Values
Walk one-on-one with one of our Lead Mentors through our personally designed Vision, Mission, Values, and
Life Verse Exercise to pinpoint where your greatest passion and the world’s greatest need meet to inspire and
encourage greater meaning, purpose, and fulfillment!
Joining the Hero's Journey
Discover how God is calling you into the greatest adventure of a lifetime with other brothers
following the true Hero’s Journey of Jesus Christ according to the pattern of Philippians 2:1-11!
Sharing Your Story
Grow in Christ-like Confidence to openly, honestly, and vulnerably share your own Hero’s Journey
filled with all of its successes, faults, failures, and grace-covered redemption with other brothers
who need to hear your story!
Whole-Life Wellness #1
Strengthen your spiritual and physical health and wellness through our approach to
“Whole-Life Wellness” in a broken world with Jesus at the Center! And, Join the Journey of being one of
God’s embodied and embedded ambassadors of whole-life wellness the world today!
Whole-Life Wellness #2
Mature in your mental and emotional health and wellness through our approach to
“Whole-Life Wellness” in a broken world with Jesus at the Center! And, Join the Journey of being one of
God’s ambassadors of conviction with compassion in our divisive world today!
Whole-Life Wellness #3
Build up your relational and vocational health and wellness through our approach to
“Whole-Life Wellness” in a broken world with Jesus at the Center! And, Join the Journey of being one of
God’s embodied and embedded ambassadors of whole-life wellness the world today!
The 4 G's of Biblical Manhood
Follow the daily path of the 4 G’s of Authentic Biblical Manhood:
Freedom of the Gospel, the Peace of Gratitude, the Joy of Generosity, and the the Way of Manly G.R.I.T.!
Leveraging Your Influence
Leverage your leadership and resources even further by walking with one of our Lead Mentors through
the Biblical Pattern of Leveraging Leadership found in Nehemiah!
Reflect & Project
Challenge yourself and the community of brothers by intentionally and introspectively working through our
annual reflect and project exercise which takes a thoughtful deep dive into the year that has passed as well as
a prayerful process of setting BHAGs, OKR’s, and FPI’s for the year ahead!
Mentoring Others
Make the Manly Move to Mentoring others! There is no doubt that we believe that we are created for community
and leadership! And, we believe that a key part of Biblical Manly Leadership and whole-life wellness is to
intentionally and actively engage in mentoring other men via our Exodus 18 Methodology!