Christmas is over and you're exhausted. You've finally felt that heavy weight of seasonal ministry planning lifted off of your shoulders.
But maybe you always feel that weight... maybe you always feel exhausted when it comes to ministry…
Here's a quick summary: the "church game" is a game that ministry leaders knowingly or unknowingly play which revolves around trying to make everyone in their church happy. That sounds like a noble goal at first but you quickly realize - it's impossible! You can't please everyone because everyone wants something different.
The question is: How do you stop?!…
If I mentioned the "church game," would you know what I'm talking about? It's that game that gets played in churches from time to time (and sometimes not just from time to time but ALL THE TIME). You'll never hear anyone talk about it. In fact, they might not even know that they're playing. Maybe YOU don't even know you're playing. But sure enough - there are those unspoken rules that you have to abide by to "win the game"... or at least not lose it…
How often do you find yourself saying, "I'll just do it myself!"? You know you could ask someone else to do whatever you have to do but it seems like that would be more work than you just doing it in the first place. You'd have to show them how to do it and then watch them and make sure they got it right.
The truth is: "I'll just do it myself!" is a dangerous phrase. In the short term, it seems innocent enough. But, in the long term, it's got major consequences…