Dear pastor,
It often feels like all I have to do to really help my church to become healthy and vibrant and successful is to:
- Call a few (or ten) more people per week
- Visit more people every week
- Text more people every week
- Invite more people to church
- Ask people better questions
- Make sure to remember more details about people’s lives
- Pray more
- Read my Bible more
- Study more
- Make my sermons shorter (or sometimes longer)
- Improve my teaching and explanation
- Be funnier
- Have more people over to my house
- Take more people out to eat
- Write more notes and letters of encouragement
- Delegate better
- Recruit more
- Become a better cheerleader
- Do less (or sometimes more)
- Learn how to do altar calls
- Spend more time discipling one-to-one
- Offer more services, prayer meetings and Bible studies
- Do more service projects
- Get the van ministry going
- Involve more people in Sunday morning worship
- Get a few more volunteers
And since that is all I need to do to help the church grow spiritually and numerically, I really don’t know what my problem is and why I don’t just get to it!
Here’s the deal: I really don’t know what I should be doing except that I listen to the Lord day by day and moment by moment. In spite of all the learning and experience I have, all I really can do is pray, listen and walk by faith.
But then I guess that’s really all Jesus asks of any of us.
Christ is with us, Christ is in us
Mike J
Pastor Encouragement 