We provide the structure. You provide the shepherding.
A 7-week cohort for the founders, owners and executives in your congregation. Six pillars. Scripture-based. Designed to send your leaders back to you stronger — not to run programs through your church.
You know your people. We provide the bones and the rhythm.
Journaling, AI coaching, and Scripture study happen online. This keeps the in-person meetings focused on the people.
This works for a small leadership team or a large marketplace ministry.
Christ as Lord. Repentance, confession, and the Spirit. The foundation for everything else.
I lead myself first. Character under pressure, before anyone else follows.
Marriage, family, body, rhythms. Wholeness as a leader — married, single, divorced, widowed.
I build my business God's way — for Kingdom impact, not personal empire. Stewardship and generosity.
Iron sharpens iron. The cord of three that keeps a leader honest.
I serve the Kingdom. Generosity in action, vision, and the legacy I'm actually leaving.
Same three beats every week — Scripture, teaching, shared practice. The pillar changes; the rhythm doesn't.
Can God trust your soul? Repentance, confession, and a built rhythm with Him — the foundation He builds everything else on.
Psalm 139:23–24, 1 John 1:9, and Mark 1:35. Honest prayer, repentance, and the rhythm of the Quiet Hour. Pastor or elder opens the Word.
God doesn't entrust more to leaders who perform Christianity — He entrusts more to leaders who practice it. Why honesty, confession, and rhythm precede everything He gives you.
Every leader takes the Compass in the portal — the honest baseline across all six pillars. Each leader writes one Honest Sentence each morning. The room shares one out loud, no fixing.
Can God trust you to lead yourself? Character under pressure, before He trusts you to lead anyone else.
1 Timothy 4:7–8 and Proverbs 16:32. Train yourself to be godly; rule your own spirit before you rule a room.
God doesn't hand authority to leaders who can't govern themselves. The private life is the qualifying exam for the public one.
Name one area where your private life and your public leadership don't match. Bring it to the room. Pick one concrete next step.
Can God trust you with your home and your body? Marriage, family, health, rhythms — the people and the temple He gave you first.
Ephesians 5:25–33, Deuteronomy 6:4–9, and 1 Corinthians 6:19–20. Sacrificial love at home; the body as temple; faith handed down at the kitchen table.
The home is the first stewardship test. If God can't trust you with the people across your kitchen table, He's not handing you more out there.
Name one conversation owed to your spouse, child, or close friend — and one of the four leaks (sleep, food, movement, Sabbath). Have the conversation; close one leak for seven days. Pick your weekly REVIVE day — a 24-hour Sabbath off the wheel — and tell the room when it starts. It doesn't have to be Sunday.
Can God trust you in covenant? The triad — three leaders who keep you honest, because two collapses to agreement and four diffuses ownership.
Proverbs 27:17, Ecclesiastes 4:9–12, and James 5:16. Sharpening, the threefold cord, and confessing to one another.
Most marketplace leaders are surrounded by people and still alone. God grows leaders He can plant in a covenant room — not a network.
Name your three. If you don't have three, the room helps you name a first call this week. Confess one thing you've been carrying alone.
Can God trust you with the business? Stewardship, generosity, and getting honest about money — running the company like it's already His.
1 Corinthians 10:31, 2 Corinthians 9:6–11, and 1 Timothy 6:9–10. Do it all for God's glory; grace-giving (cheerful, not transactional); refuse the love of money. Tithing handled as discipleship, not as a prosperity transaction.
Owner vs. steward. God grows what He can trust you with — and the budget tells the truth your sermon won't.
Pull last month's numbers. Mark the first gift. Share one money confession the room can pray over.
Can God trust you with what comes next? Vision, generosity, and the legacy you're actually leaving — Kingdom, not empire.
2 Corinthians 9:6–11, Habakkuk 2:2–3, and Proverbs 13:22. Cheerful generosity; write the vision plain; leave an inheritance to the children's children.
A one-page 12-month picture and a named act of generosity prove He can trust you with the next decade. Drift proves He can't.
Write a one-page vision for your life, family, and work in 12 months — including one concrete act of generosity. Read it to the room. Let them ask the hard question.
Can God trust you to send others? Refer, apply, go — the Compass closes the loop and opens the next door.
Matthew 28:18–20 and 2 Timothy 2:2. The Great Commission, and entrusting what you've learned to faithful people.
Mission isn't a future event — it's the proof God can trust you with more. Three doors open in Week 7: (1) Refer — name one person in your circle who needs this room and make the introduction. (2) Apply — leaders who feel the call can apply to run the next Church Cohort in their own ministry. (3) Go — twice a year Anvil & Cross runs a mission trip (service + discipleship). Cohort grads can apply to come on the next one.
Each leader retakes the Compass and compares it to Week 1 — where God moved, where the gap still calls. Each leader writes one referral, one applied next step (facilitate / mission / 36-week course), and reads their plan to the room. The cohort prays. The facilitator sends them out.
The business leaders in your church. Give owners and operators a serious place to talk about the weight they carry.
Leadership teams who want a shared language for faithful business before they advise others.
Pastoral staff handling budgets and teams. These business principles apply to the church too.
Existing business groups that want a structured 6-week start before going deeper.
A Forge Table is a single 90-minute evening at your church — a dinner, the Compass walked together, one honest conversation, one prayer. No fee. No curriculum to teach. We send you the kit; your pastor or elder runs the room.
If the room asks for more, you go to the 7-week cohort. If not, you've still given your marketplace leaders one honest night they don't get anywhere else.
One PDF. Pastor or elder reads it. No prep required.
Every leader takes it on their phone. Six pillars, six minutes.
The room shares one Honest Sentence. No fixing, no advice. Just heard.
If the room wants more — the 7-week cohort or the 36-week course. If not, you've still served them well.
Week 7 is not the end. Every leader retakes the Compass — and then chooses one of three next steps: go deeper into the 36-week course, train to facilitate the next cohort in your church, or apply for an Anvil & Cross mission trip.
The cohort thread stays open. The facilitator stays the facilitator. The room keeps walking — together.
The Week 7 Compass picks the pillar. Cohort rate carries over. Same room, deeper road.
Grads who feel the call apply to facilitate the next cohort in your church. We train them in a 4-week facilitator intensive. The room multiplies.
Twice a year, grads can apply to join an Anvil & Cross mission trip — service plus discipleship, funded in part by the Refinery Fund.
Every church is different. Size, budget, and season all matter. Fill out the form and we’ll send a proposal for your context. We don’t want to price anyone out of this work.
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