Healthy Church - Start Here! by Coon Carlton

Author:Coon, Carlton [Inconnu(e)]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2015-07-22T01:00:00+00:00

Activity #6 - Family is a scheduled priority. Don’t win a city and lose your kids. Put family activities, your children’s school events and a monthly date night on your personal calendar. It should be in red ink – these are red letter days that never return for any of you. These priority events cannot be replaced by board meetings or a rescheduled Home Bible Study. If there is no money for a dinner on a date night, grab some snacks from your house and go sit by a lake. If these family events are not scheduled and treated as sacred, the tyranny of the urgent will impose itself on more important things. Treat such appointments with the significance of an appointment with a leader you hold in high regard.

Activity #7 - Employment is generally necessary for survival of both the church and the man of God’s family. Your employment is not the minister’s objective though the job may be one from which you retire. Employment is simply a means to the end of getting God’s work done. A few preachers never work a secular job. Never working outside the church is a preacher's loss rather than a positive mark of distinction. Much is learned by having to survive in the marketplace; hearing the unsacred sounds of the mechanic shop; and experiencing office politics and nepotism at their worst. A secular job is not bad. All work is holy. The work place will generally bring a missionary in contact with people who need God. If one’s Christianity is not compelling in the market-place, then it is unlikely to be compelling from behind a pulpit.

Call to Action:

“Drive time” is good for prayer, study and thinking. Radio talk show hosts, oldies music or National Public Radio rarely deepen one’s spiritual life. Equip yourself to succeed!

Many libraries have a treasury of educational material on audio available for check out. One can improve management skills, learn to speak elementary Spanish, learn how to reach a Muslim, or to better deal with people by using drive (subway, airplane, train) time to become equipped.

Make time count – work hard and smart! Don’t invest much time without asking and answering two questions:

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