We coach pastors and equip teams
to lead fruitful churches.
Your church can become more fruitful.
Our Ministry
WE BELIEVE our world is in crisis. Many are far from God. Society is in upheaval. These realities are undeniable. God’s Plan A? Local churches acting in the world as a redemptive force for Kingdom good.
“This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit” (Jn 15:8). A fruitful church is one that prioritizes the mission (Mt 28:19-20). Where new people discover Jesus. Where “the least of these” are served. Where the Spirit is alive, and the Father is glorified. Churches like this reach people for Christ, grow them in faith, increase their influence, and transform their communities.
THE SAD TRUTH: Most churches struggle. Attendance has declined (Pew).The number of Americans who are “Nones” (no religious connection) hit 28% in 2024 and is up 13% since 2007 (Pew). Churches aren’t effectively countering these trends. Only 10% of American churches are fruitful (Rick Richardson), and 20% are on a glidepath to death (Thom Rainer).
WE BELIEVE many leaders and many churches long to be more effective in reaching their neighbors for Christ and serving them in Jesus’ name. If this is you, we can help.
HOW WE SERVE: We work with senior pastors and church leadership teams.
EQUIPPING: We equip church teams with biblical leadership principles during three, two-day events, using an in-person seminar format.
COACHING: We help pastors apply these principles in their churches, using bi-weekly, one-on-one, Zoom coaching sessions.
Your CHURCH can be a five-talent church. YOU can be the KEY!
If you want God to do this in your church … WELCOME!
Our Why
Leaders, you and your family sacrifice to follow God’s call. You believe in your church and want it to grow. You long to see people finding Christ.
So you pray, read Scripture, and invest in your spiritual life. You know these are essential. But maybe, like others, you imagined your church would be more effective. Maybe you sense a need for sharper tools in your leadership tool kit. Maybe, like the 42% of pastors, you’ve even thought about quitting (Barna). If any of this is true, you’re not alone.
Here’s what’s real: if you keep doing … what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting … what you always got. If you want different results, you must lead differently. Thankfully, leading differently is possible. And we exist to help you do just that.
We do what we do because we want your church to flourish through renewed leadership. We want to walk alongside you as you sharpen your tools.
Because we want more people in your community to experience the love, forgiveness, and healing of God. We believe this is possible.
If any of this resonates for you, we invite you to join us and other leaders as you learn and apply essentially new leadership behaviors. Then, by the Spirit’s power, we believe your church will see a different future.
We walk with you as you elevate your leadership
so you can fulfill the mission of God.
Curious for more on our WHY?
“This was a homerun experience.”
Pastor Joey Kalan
CrossRoads Church
Fergus Falls, MN
Our Leadership View
You may wonder. What are we teaching? Fair question.
We teach leadership principles that are grounded in Scripture. We then refine these through research and validate them by experience.
In Scripture, the foundation of leadership is a leader’s spiritual life. When by God’s Spirit you master your inner world—your thoughts, emotions, and choices—you become unshakeable in your outer world. A core part of the journey is attending to your life and heart.
But there’s more. We unpack biblical mindsets and habits of spiritual leadership. Then we teach you those principles and coach you to apply them in your life and ministry.
Why? Because leadership is often a missing ingredient in churches. And it’s essential for bearing fruit.
We know of godly pastors who struggle to move their churches toward mission. They love God, his Word, and their people. They pray hard and work hard. But the results disappoint.
The challenge arises, in part, from the volatility and secularity of our world. A century ago, human knowledge doubled every 100 years. Today it doubles every 12 hours. We don’t live in the 1950s.
Leading today demands more relevant perspectives and more effective behaviors. We will help you learn and apply these so your church can bear fruit. We want to walk with you as you become a five-talent leader (Mt 25:14-30).
This process will work if you put it into practice. It will maximize your capacity to catalyze your church for Kingdom growth. We’ve watched as others elevate their leadership, and we’ve seen God bring increase.
Our passion is to help you master leadership principles and skills so you can put legs to your prayers.
Our Beliefs
We are biblical people, followers of Jesus Christ, ambassadors for historic Christianity.
We believe in the Triune Creator.
Our great and good God—Father, Son, and Spirit—created our beautiful world.
We believe in the Bible’s authority.
God communicates his love and truth supremely in the Bible, so we acknowledge its supreme authority.
We believe people are precious to God, yet mired in sin and its effects.
Born into sin, we confirm our guilt whenever we put Self in charge of our lives, and this separates us from God.
We believe in the Gospel of salvation by grace through faith.
God grants us salvation and forgives our sin, entirely by grace, if we turn from Self as king and trust in Jesus as King.
We believe in the Church.
Local churches are God’s Plan A for redeeming the world, and their God-given mission is to “make disciples.”
We believe in Kingdom cooperation.
To fulfill God’s mission, 360 Pastor partners with anyone who shares these central Christian teachings.
Our Key Partner:
Eagle Brook Association
We offer the 360 Pastor experience through collaboration with our strategic partner, Eagle Brook Association (EBA). EBA is a ministry of Eagle Brook Church, Lino Lakes, MN.
EBA and 360 Pastor are distinct organizations. But (1) we are aligned on the church’s mission, (2) we share a leadership philosophy, and (3) our strengths in teaching and coaching are naturally complementary.
The full EBA/360 Pastor experience lasts just under two years. This is a commitment, but lasting change doesn’t happen in a weekend conference. The full experience includes three, two-day seminars every five-six months. We invite each church to bring up to eight people to a seminar. Over the next five months, a senior pastor meets on Zoom, every other week, with a dedicated coach, to implement what they learned in the seminars.
We’re excited to offer this service together with EBA. It maximizes the strengths of both organizations for you, for your church, and for the Kingdom.
YOUR FIRST STEP: To access what 360 Pastor has to offer, sign up (with your team) to attend an EBA training. After that dynamic experience, EBA and 360 Pastor work with you to guide a seamless transition into the coaching experience.
Our Team
Eric Bryant
Eric serves as Campus Pastor of Gateway Church South Austin, which has been a campus planting campus. Before that, he served with Erwin McManus at Mosaic in Los Angeles for 12 years. In the mid-1990s, he was part of a church planting team in Seattle. He has a doctorate in ministry in Entrepreneurial Leadership from Bethel Seminary. He is the author of Not Like Me: Loving, Serving, and Influencing Our Divided World and Fruitful: Becoming Who God Created You To Be. He and Deborah live in Austin, TX.
Brad Mateer
Brad is a lifelong Christian leader who studied the Bible and leadership in college and graduate school, and then built a real estate business as a Christian layman. He and his family attend Eagle Brook Church. He serves as a member of the Board at Anselm House, the Christian Study Center at the University of Minnesota. He led them to acquire and develop a strategic ministry location at the heart of the university. He and his wife, Val, live in Blaine, MN.
David Clark
David brings a lifetime of experience as a professor, author, pastor, and university leader to his role as 360 Pastor’s founder. He has published extensively the areas of theology, ethics, and apologetics. His most notable book is To Know and Love God. David spent three decades serving in different roles at Bethel University in St Paul, MN, including a season as University Provost. He also invested eight years as a pastor. David leads 360 Pastor as a capstone to a lifetime of ministry service. He and Sandy live in Stillwater, MN.
Rick Stapleton
Rick is a faithful Minnesota sports fan who pastored three small-town churches, leading them to missional revitalization. In his last stop at CrossPoint Church in Hutchinson, MN, and in collaboration with its members, Rick led a cultural renewal that resulted in hundreds coming to new faith in Jesus Christ and growing them as Jesus’ disciples. Rick thoroughly enjoys coaching pastors to develop a holistic, biblical vision for personal, relational, and leadership growth for lasting impact. He lives with his wife, Marcie, in Eagan, MN.