This post is specifically for anyone who works in a church, volunteers in a church, or works with “church people”. So, if you are out there slaving away in a secular job and Easter is just another weekend, don’t take offense.
The weeks leading up to Easter – and Christmas for that matter – can be BRUTAL! This week especially.
As a rule there is not a lot of “margin” built into church staffing and volunteer positions. Couple that with a major seasonal event, and trying to keep all the balls in the air can leave you more frantic than a goldfish swimming in a bowl of Red Bull.
But here’s the deal - the blood, sweat, tears and sleep deprivation you are going through WILL have a tangible effect on SOMEONE! Because of what you are doing, SOMEONE will experience hope. Hope for a better today and an Eternal tomorrow. Don’t begin to think what you are doing isn’t important. If it wasn’t important it would have been eliminated by now.
There is absolutely no way a pastor could make a visit to someone in grief were it not for somebody entering the data somewhere. Either in a powerful database or a post-it. SOMEbody had to handle that information. The same thing applies to the media, choir, parking lot and janitorial staff and anyone in between.
So, this week, when you think you aren’t going to make it – you will. And lives will be changed because you did.
And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men – Col 3:23
If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? 1 Cor. 12:17
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