How do you build a better team around yourself?
Knowing the people you work with and appreciating their unique peccadillos and communication styles is one of the best ways to avoid parish drama and build the Kingdom effectively.
Ask this question to get more freedom in your work.
Your pastor probably doesn’t care how you’re lining up catechists for the year; he just cares that you’re lining up catechists. There are many items like this that you know he’s going to sign off on, but you still feel like you need to run them by him. If he’s going to sign off on them though, we have to wonder why we’re waiting to move on until we run them by him. A better question might even be: Why do I need to run them by him at all? Usually, it’s just because we never asked for permission to make decisions for our selves.
Who cares if my office is messy?
Does this sound like anyone’s office you know?
I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man without sense; and behold, it was overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
Proverbs 24:30-31
Ministry work is busy. The nature of the work often requires us to wear many hats and be many things to many people. We are simply so busy running from one thing to the next, that it’s easier to keep the three things we’re working on right in front of our faces so we can bounce between them. Unfortunately, this makes our work spaces pretty messy, and scripture clearly has an opinion about that. In the verse above, the author goes so far as to call the owner of the field above a sluggard and a man without sense. Yikes!