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Delegate or Die- 1

Oct 2

Written by: jimwideman
10/2/2009 12:04 AM

Over the years I have learned the hard way that doing the job alone, just doesn’t work. I should have listened to Three Dog Night. They tried to teach me that “One Is The Loneliest Number That You’ll Ever Do”, but I just would not listen.

Moses also learned the hard way about doing the job alone. In Exodus chapter 18 we are told about how Moses did everything in ministry by himself and it was causing problems on the job. It was hard on the people as well, it was also not good for Moses, and it was not good for his family. Jethro, Moses father-in-law gave him some very wise advise and counsel. Simply put he was told to delegate or die.
. There is a right and wrong way to delegate ministry to others. Mr. Webster defines delegation as a person or persons appointed to represent us. Delegation is not finding someone who is willing and dumping part of your ministry responsibilities on them. We need others to represent us. But this cannot happen if you don’t take the necessary steps to make it happen and develop volunteers through action. We must allow others to get involved. I know what you are thinking. My volunteers can’t teach a class or do children’s ministry as well as I can. That may be true but there was a time in your life when you could not minister as good as you can now. Someone allowed you to sorry all over a group of kids and get better by doing the ministry hands on. We must give our volunteers the same chance we were given to learn by doing.

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Re: Delegate or Die- 1

This is one area I've had to accelerate my learning. I've been in ministry for years and I think part of the reason I haven't seen better growth is because I haven't delegated nearly enough. My new position is making me delegate just because of the size of it...it's a good thing.

By SpencerClick on 10/2/2009 6:57 AM