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💡 1 SOLUTION FOR EFFECTIVE MINISTRY
Commitment is the pathway to focus. If you feel overwhelmed by all of your tasks and responsibilities, remember: If you commit to nothing, anything and everything will distract you. For example:
When you commit to a spouse, you can focus on building a deep and meaningful relationship
When you commit to a goal, you can focus on building practices and rhythms to hit that goal
When you commit to calendaring out your day, you can focus on each task as your calendar instructs
When you lack commitment, you lack focus.
When dating, you may spend time with many different people, but can only go so deep while keeping your options open
When spending time on various amounts of semi-interesting activities, you can only gain a certain low level of proficiency in any of them
When you leave your workday to a task list with no pre-plan of action, you’ll likely pick the easiest things to do first and procrastinate on the deeper (and typically more important) work, making everything take longer than it needs to
Focused people, ministries, and churches do not leave their options open. To get things done, you must select your priorities and be comfortable ignoring everything else.
Everything will distract you if you commit to nothing. The first step to increasing your focus on anything is to make a commitment to it.
What do you need to commit to today? And is there a ministry, event, or ongoing project your church needs to end to focus better on what is working?
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🤔 1 CHALLENGE FOR LIFE AND MINISTRY
What am I not spending enough time on or willfully ignoring? How will I feel about that 5 years from now?
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P.S. Who was the most business-savvy woman in the Bible?
Pharaoh’s daughter, who went down to the bank of the Nile and pulled out a little prophet.
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