Uploaded NTC (New Testament Challenge) e-votional for the morning delivery (Want in on it… e-mail info@TheInChurch.org to be added to the mailing list)
So this is day two of my week long time log. So I have to admit there is some hidden agenda here. (I can’t stand being so transparent) I’ll let you know how this ties into our New Testament Challenge a little later in the week.
12:01 am – 4:00 am
Sleep
4:00 am – 4:25 am
Uploaded NTC (New Testament Challenge) e-votional for the morning delivery (Want in on it… e-mail info@TheInChurch.org to be added to the mailing list)
4:25 am – 4:50 am
Updated some Media Shout files that got goofed up… Sunday morning not great time to find out
4:50 am – 5:10 am
Inputted credit card giving slips
5:10 am – 5:25 am
Responded to e-mails
5:25 am – 6:00 am
Started work on updating programs for Sunday and got back printed out
6:00 am – 6:30 am
Got ready for work
6:30 am – 7:15 am
Travel to work (incl. prayer, strategizing, planning and looking for FHP in varying orders)
7:30 am – 8:30 am
Breakfast w/ Carl and strategize how to take over the world… or just figure out how to keep the world from taking over ours
8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Work
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Company Lunch and site visit
2:00 pm – 5:35 pm
Work
5:35 pm – 6:20 pm
Travel home from work (incl. prayer, strategizing, planning and looking for FHP in varying orders)
6:20 pm – 6:45 pm
Motorcycle Maintenance
6:45 pm – 7:00 pm
Finished giving Owen a bath
7:00 pm – 7:35 pm
Dinner
7:35 pm – 8:15 pm
Wrestling/playing w/ Owen while trying to catch up on the news with Harmony
8:15 pm –8:45 pm
Read books with Owen
8:45 pm – 12:00 pm
In the process of getting Owen to bed I fell asleep and went to my bed at 11:15 pm
So I told you yesterday that I would be documenting my week so that I can better evaluate my time. I have read, and frankly ignored, those chapters in many books describing this process. Well for the first time I am going to do it in hopes of improving time management skills and prioritizing my life. So here goes day one:
12:01 am – 4:00 am
Sleep
4:00 am – 4:40 am
Typed and uploaded NTC (New Testament Challenge) e-votional for the morning delivery (Want in on it… e-mail info@TheInChurch.org to be added to the mailing list)
4:40 am – 6:45 am
Edited and uploaded two audio files to our podcast site
Inputted weekly receipts into QuickBooks and prepared deposit (I got behind so I actually had to do multiple weeks)
Inputted 2 weeks worth of expenditures into QuickBooks
Ran report of online giving and updated QuickBooks
Modified a scheduled contributors account
6:45 am - 7:15 am
Got ready for work
7:15 am - 7:35 am
Coffee with Harmony
This was supposed to be some scheduled “us” time but Owen woke up early and asked his mom “why she opened the kitchen so early?” So Harmony was going to surprise me with breakfast and Owen reaped the benefits also.
7:35 am - 8:20 am
Travel to work (incl. prayer, strategizing, planning and looking for FHP in varying orders)
8:20 am – 12:30 pm
Work
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Company Lunch (Attendance Expected – you’ll see why this is noted later in the week)
1:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Work
5:30 pm - 6:15 pm
Travel home from work (incl. prayer, strategizing, planning and looking for FHP in varying orders)
6:15 pm – 6:30 pm
Figured out why the bank said that our deposit was $200 less than what I had calculated (learned travelers checks are not treated as cash… every church planter should know that…right?)
6:30 pm – 6:45 pm
Puzzle/wrestling time with Owen (weird combination)
6:45 pm – 7:15 pm
Monday Mealtime Moment (Harmony made an excellent dinner combined with a family devotion discussing how a bad attitude makes us smell like poop to God but when we do good we smell like flowers or candy) – Nothing better than asking your kid how he smells in that regardand watching him smell his knee.
7:15 pm – 8:20 pm
Made movies with my creative son who is determined to make Toy Story 3 before Pixar can
8:20 pm –9:30 pm
Exercise time and shower afterwards (My wife requested that I take better care of myself and start going to the gym. She packaged it in a “I am concerned about your health and I want you to be around for a long time, and you know heart disease runs in your family, and the ministry is really stressful” package. But it may have more to do with being 32 now and the terrible combination of gravity and lack of exercise.
9:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Devotion time
10:00 pm – 10:30 pm
Face time with Harmony (part of my schedule is 30 minutes min. of alone time with her and since the coffee thing didn’t work day one we had to make up for it)
10:30 pm – 11:15 pm
Couldn’t sleep so I just meditated and prayed. Didn’t walk away with any divine nuggets but just enjoyed some time with Him.
So my time management skills aren’t the best and my priorities are somewhat screwed up, so I am going to document my schedule this week. This may be boring to some of you but hey this is my blog.
I don’t do journaling beyond this very well, even though I am doing some as a part of the New Testament Challenge. So I am going to use this format to document my time this week and see how effective I am at aligning my priorities with my actions.
We learned in the NTC (The Challenge of Radical Love – audio here) that love is a choice that you make through the actions you take. So I want to figure out if I really am showing love in the areas that I know I should. If not I will need to evaluate and come up with a new strategy.
I have established some goals with my family and some parameters to work inside of as it relates to church. I want, and need, to make these work for my spiritual, physical, emotional and relational health. I’m not going to do that whole 6 minute or even 15 minute thing but I am going to document as much as possible (within reason) and commentate on a few.
For you future church planters this may give some insight into what you have to look forward to. For existing ones, or experienced ones, you may find that you are not alone or be able to offer insight on how to do it better.
So starting tomorrow I will be listing the time spent in different tasks. I will start the clock at 12:01am, Monday morning. I multi-task fairly well so at certain points you may find things happening at the same time.
So if this doesn’t intrigue you, just come back and visit this site after 09.22.08. Being that I have recently learned how to imbed YouTube videos I will never be short of content again.
I stole this clip of some “hip/hop” worship from my friend Carl. I wish that I knew the context of this and that there were some crowd shots but based on the applause they thought that it was “dope”.
I am about to call our band and offer them a 20% raise. They are absolutely worth it…
Somebody sent me this link with the youngest “preacher” in the world and I really am torn on how to take it. Check THIS out and come back….
Okay, so I have a preacher’s kid (PK if you will) who every Sunday about mic check time goes to the platform sits on his daddies stool and begins to deliver some 4 year old theology such as “God is bigger than all the monsters.” No jokes… that is deep if you begin to think about all the monsters we face in life.
But I am wondering if his daddy was a yeller who spit over the first three rows when he preached could this be my kid? I guess the answer is probably yes, and I would think that it is great and be proud just like when he teaches from my stool. But would I then take valuable service time to hand my son a microphone and see hom many amens he could get as peop,e pretend that they can understand him?
So I am unsure, but do you find this cute, disturbing, in bad taste, “raising them up in the way they should go”, or other?
I don’t get into a lot of politics on this blog but HERE is a link to a site with the You Tube clips of Rick Warren (Senior Pastor of the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California) asking some great questions to Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain. I had some people ask me about it this weekend and I said I would post this link. This happened in mid August just in case you missed it. Regardless of where you stand I think you will be able to agree that this is an amazing thing to have the two Presidential candidates in a church being interviewed by a Pastor is awesome.
I have nothing against the Miami Herald or the Sun Sentinel. In fact I love them because they have helped us in the past with some free publicity. But we are trying to get a few more people to hold out on reading the Sunday paper until the afternoon.
So with a little help from one of our college students currently attending Full Sail University in Orlando, we prepared this little video to help promote what we affectionately call the Fit Club. The reason why we call it that is because if you slowed the tape down a little you would see these grown men sweating, especially as we roll in “the beast”. That is what I have begun to call the +/- 1400lb cart that carries our staging.
So if 7:30am rolls around this Sunday and you’re thinking I would love to take in a good work out and do some service for God… join us at InDependence Church and help us with this…
At breakfast this morning with my buddy Carl we were discussing some of our challenges. This time could easily turn into a one up or simply a complain session. (you thought I was going to say something else but I am working out my salvation) To this point we have been successful in making it an opportunity to encourage one another and offer feedback.
This morning I was telling him about my desire to establish some priorities and boundaries between ministry and life. I know some really “holy” people just said there is no difference; God has called you to be a pastor, so it is your life. No, it is only a piece… God has called me to be a man, a husband, a father, a friend, a witness, an employee, and a pastor so it is up to me to establish the priorities of these things and establish boundaries.
I have always been aware of the time vacuum that is ministry. I grew up with it and have vowed hundreds of times not to loose site of my priorities. Well, seemingly no matter how conscious I am or how hard I have tried I am missing the mark. God has a way of reminding us of where we are falling short. Sometimes they are subtle redirections and other times they hurt like a dull knife cutting out your heart.
So, I used the word Purpose Driven because that is one of the church planting models that includes the “launching large” concept. Obviously there are others, but I want to share today a price to “launching large” (especially if you don’t make it). The Bible talks about counting your costs and this was one that I didn’t consider and maybe you haven’t either so let me help you learn this so you might not have to pay the same price.Continue reading ‘Purpose Driven has a Price’
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