Comments on: How do we encourage busy people to serve? http://tonymorganlive.com/2009/10/29/busy-people-serve/ Trying to be strategic. Fri, 25 May 2012 12:22:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: How do we encourage busy people to serve? at neoLeader http://tonymorganlive.com/2009/10/29/busy-people-serve/#comment-49791 How do we encourage busy people to serve? at neoLeader Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:25:38 +0000 http://tonymorganlive.com/?p=4793#comment-49791 [...] Link to original article in Uncategorized. Feed for this Entry Trackback Address [...] [...] Link to original article in Uncategorized. Feed for this Entry Trackback Address [...]

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]]> By: Matt Bowman http://tonymorganlive.com/2009/10/29/busy-people-serve/#comment-39089 Matt Bowman Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:24:31 +0000 http://tonymorganlive.com/?p=4793#comment-39089 I think the point of "place" is one of the great misses of the church. We think that for our service to "count", it has to take place within the context of our church's direct ministry. That usually leads to either a frustration that we can't serve in an area where we feel called or it leads to the creation of yet another ministry under the umbrella of the church. To truly equip people & release people for ministry, we as leaders have to understand that the ministry can exist outside the sanctioning of the our particular church. I think the point of “place” is one of the great misses of the church. We think that for our service to “count”, it has to take place within the context of our church’s direct ministry. That usually leads to either a frustration that we can’t serve in an area where we feel called or it leads to the creation of yet another ministry under the umbrella of the church. To truly equip people & release people for ministry, we as leaders have to understand that the ministry can exist outside the sanctioning of the our particular church.

]]> By: Chip Schneider http://tonymorganlive.com/2009/10/29/busy-people-serve/#comment-39055 Chip Schneider Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:26:15 +0000 http://tonymorganlive.com/?p=4793#comment-39055 Good stuff Mark & Tony! I recently heard teaching by both Francis Chan and Matt Chandler on this same topic, "busy lives". Not doing either of them justice, but basically they both presented a case that the solution is intentionally becoming less busy. Our culture values busy schedules. We pridefully evaluate our self importance based on how busy we are. Conversely, we view people who are not busy as slack, unambitious losers who are making no contribution. Chandler said, "Deep community will not happen where we value being busy, & doing, over really being in true relationship with other people" The biblical "one another" commands, including serving one another, are nearly impossible without also building community. Obedience to these commands and being a true member of a community demands that we reorganize our priorities and focus our most valuable resource, time, on community building activities like volunteering. Good stuff Mark & Tony! I recently heard teaching by both Francis Chan and Matt Chandler on this same topic, “busy lives”. Not doing either of them justice, but basically they both presented a case that the solution is intentionally becoming less busy.

Our culture values busy schedules. We pridefully evaluate our self importance based on how busy we are. Conversely, we view people who are not busy as slack, unambitious losers who are making no contribution.

Chandler said, “Deep community will not happen where we value being busy, & doing, over really being in true relationship with other people”

The biblical “one another” commands, including serving one another, are nearly impossible without also building community.

Obedience to these commands and being a true member of a community demands that we reorganize our priorities and focus our most valuable resource, time, on community building activities like volunteering.

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