Thursday #5: Office Hours

In my ideal world, office work would magically take care of itself. In the ideal world, we could say the church is really all about people, and 100% of our time would be spent directly ministering to people. I don't know whether this would be my ideal world because I love people or because I hate office work, possibly both. It would be nice if ministry time was solely dealing with the people we are supposed to be ministering too, but this is not the reality of today. I understand that in order to put together quality programming and coordinating our large church bodies there needs to be a significant amount of planning put into these things. This is why we need office work. I suppose I have enough appreciation to say that in a realistically ideal world, office work would be just enough to put together a holistic, organized ministry without sacrificing quality time with the people of our flocks. Office hours would not be so others can get a sense that you are doing your job, but rather are times to make sure we are being the most effective church we can be.