Make Decisions Count

You go to work and you may not feel or actually be the one making decisions, let alone important ones.

Then you come home.

Leader. Head of household. Decision maker. Mentor. Teacher. Director.

No or little authority to "final say", based solely on what door you walk through = potential power trip. Proceed with caution.

At some point last night, I wondered if Associate Pastors experience this. Decisions have to be run by the Senior Pastor and/or Deacon Board...then you get home...and the limiter is off.  Maybe it's just me, but with 1500 pastors a month walking out the back door, I doubt it's just me. And if I feel I need prayer regarding this matter, then we should pray...

Pray for Associate Pastors...may the decisions they make at home be just as well thought-out and considered as the ones they make regarding ministry. Pray against "power trips", that as they walk through the front door of their home, the attitude and spirit doesn't change simply because the environment did. Pray that their homes would be "houses of prayer" as much as the church sanctuary or their office. Pray that Associates, as well as the rest of the pastoral staff, would be the spouses and parents that the encourage and discuss with people in the church and community to live daily.

Doing nothing is a decision; so do something!
And if you decide to do something, then do something that will count...for the glory of God.

To live genuine. To be real. To walk humbly. To forgive when needed. To love always.

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