Nice Things to do For Your:
Pastor
- Read your Bible. Then do it. Stop asking him for advice to your disobedience.
- Give more. More time… more money… more help to other people who need help.
- Volunteer for some activities, committees, or ad hoc assignments. Ease the burden and time restrictions on the pastor. He/she has a family too. And you know what you all would say if the pastor can’t keep his own family together.
- Be more patient with other people, especially your fellow church members. You want people to be patient with you, right? Give the kind of treatment that you want to receive. It makes life better.
- Attend church on a regular basis. You are not going there just for you, put to help others who may need your help and inspiration.
- Resist some of your temptations. Some things (and people) you can’t play with. You cannot start a fire with a spark. Watch out if you are dancing in the dark.
- Forgive: Starting with yourself. Then include family, friends, neighbors, coworkers… and the pastor!
- Do not give in to his lust… or that little secret handshake he does!
- Stop talking about people behind their backs. While you are at it: Stop listening to people who talk about other people behind their backs. You know what they are doing to you when you are not around.
- Be quiet. Stop all that complaining and excuse making. Learn to listen better.
Congregants
- Don’t make her pregnant!
- Listen to some congregants who tell you that some of the people you put in charge are too controlling.
- Don’t get in bed with the politicians.. even if they promise to help the church. Those fleas bite.
- Remember that you CANNOT serve two masters.
- Stop playing around. If you are going to get into the ministry: get in. If you don’t want to get in (for ANY reason), then stay out.
- Practice what you preach.
- Help the deadweight/slacker congregants become more productive by encouraging them to join committees or ad hoc groups so that the Pareto Principle (a/k/a the 80/20 rule) either gets exempted or… it does apply and there’s just a bigger group, therefore, more production occurs. This will help prevent burn-out of your original 20% because less weight is being borne by them, i.e. there is a more even distribution of the load.
- Stop condoning mediocrity.
- Attest to, and reward, educational achievements … especially of the youth. Teach a child in the way they should go. EVERY ONE OF THEM.
- Remind parents (and grandparents) to read to their young children and make sure they know how to read well by the time they are in the 4 th grade. Criminological research have shown that if a child does not know how to read by the time the child is in the fourth grade, males have an much higher probability of going to jail, and females have a much higher probability of becoming unwed mothers at a very early age (with all of its concomitant problems).
