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Originally Posted by Stephanas
Ain't that the truth!
- 10 hours per sermon x three sermons per week equals 30 hours plus 10 hours "in service" time for a total of 40 hours per week before you read a book, pray a prayer, visit a hospital, shuffle paper, counsel, clean, etc, etc, etc, etc. Good bye to the dream of being "Mr Model Family Man."
- Turning a blind eye to the list of supporters of the church is irresponsible. The end result is to allow the direction of the congregation to be determined by people who don't care enough to invest in the mission of the Church. Trustees who freeload, Sunday School teachers without enough faith to invest in the church, worship leaders who have no sacrifice on the altar. Sounds like a fine mess to me.
- A true open door policy in a church office is an invitation to insanity. It's laughable really. Say good-bye to the ten hours of sermon preparation and say hello to the retired, unemployed, bored, and people who measure their importance by being the pastor's buddy - they'll take turns walking through that open door, every single day.
- Six months in a pastorate would work wonders with this list and its thinly veiled criticisms of working pastors. It's easy to criticize the guys in the trenches, but arm chair generals don't win wars.
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If you study for future sermons and keep good enough records.
The process of time would build to hours for each sermon.
My Uncle Dr Ronald Prince who was in the Southern Baptist Convention and pastored a mega church in Minden, La.
Next to T.W. Barnes, in fact they were friends.
Was one of the most prepared men in the pulpit you would ever find.
He was always working on sermons and ideas for the future.
Again I spend more that amound of time preparing for my customer presentations.
I get calls all the time to and get out of bed to work on major outages.
Some of you guys would never make in the business world.
Where we work 80 hours a week and think that is normal.
I think many of these points have given me what I needed...