Four Ministry Evaluation Areas for Leaders

Jim Wideman recently wrote a blog series highlighting four areas that ministry leaders should regularly evaluate. Here’s a summary:

1. Your Attitude
   Do I have the heart of a servant?
   Am I an asset or a liability to my pastor?
   What is my attitude about others around me?
   Am I grumbling and complaining?
2. Your Priorities
   It’s one thing to know your priorities, it’s another thing all together to live according to those priorities.
3. Your Time Management
   How am I spending my time?
   Am I spending time daily with the Lord?
   Is my family suffering while my ministry is flourishing?
   Am I making time for personal growth and development?
4. Your Performance
   Am I being a team builder or a one person show?
   What am I doing that someone else can do?
   Have I communicated clearly to all my workers what they are to do?
   Can I be relied on to complete assignments and keep commitments?

LA Traffic

To school and back is the longest 7 miles of my life.

To add insult to injury there was traffic the whole way on the freeway... and then when I exited there was traffic on the city streets!

Ugh!

I'm taking "The Servant as Leader" right now (it's a three day intensive). My fave quote so far from the class is:

"What God is doing in you is more important than what God is doing through you."

Another good one:

"Finishing Well is wanting to do it all over again when you are done."

Are You Ready For This?

My job is funny. In a good way!

I show up for a team meeting and find out that they are doing music and no one let me know to get Easy Worship ready or schedule anyone to run it.

So I'm up in the booth and am going to do it myself. This is not a complaint... it's an example.

I will be meeting with the Tech Team and talking to them about what they do and its purpose. What better way to encourage them in serving even when it is unexpected or inconvenient than by doing it myself?

The Bible also talks about being ready in season and out of season... but I don't think they were talking about running worship slides!

Leaders lead from the front.