A pastor friend handed me a good article not too long ago, 4 Sunday School ‘do overs’. It’s been a reminder of a couple of important things touching my role as a church leader and even as a father and husband.
It sometimes seems easier or better to do more for church by touching more people with phone calls, emails, blogs. It’s also easy to let hours and days slip by at home with only passing interaction with my children. Make face-to-face interaction a higher priority. It’s more gratifying for me and more meaningful to those I want to influence.
Don’t fret and stress over things that don’t go according to my hopes and plans. Rather, spend that energy building on successes. In church, it’s sometimes hard to acknowledge something isn’t working and let it go. As a father, I should spend more time encouraging and developing my children’s strengths and interests than I spend criticising and pushing them to improve.
Look for growth opportunities. New ways and places to engage and communicate the gospel. New ways and avenues to relate to my children. New way to romance my wife. Change is constant but growth is optional.
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