Friday, February 20, 2009

Some Things I've Noticed About Pastoring

- It is a very rewarding position
- It is a very painful position
- It cost you your life
- One mistake can cancel a thousand rights
- There is no time clock it is 24 hrs a day 7 days a week and 52 weeks a year...
- Your mind is always on the church.
- It requires nerves of steel and guts to stand up to people who oppose the Vision
- Good people will become casualties of the Vision ... If they can't see it by now they never will
- You have to learn to say good bye
- Decisions are made not based on one person or one group of people but they are made by what is best for the Body(Congregation) as a whole. (This perhaps is one of the most difficult)
- Sometimes the right decisions are the most painful
- Somebody in the church always knows better

[from The daily story of a growing church by David Boggs]

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