You can start reading this article with the idea that I will suggest how many weeks of vacation your church should give you, or what holiday period you should defend for your pastor; rather, I intend to answer that question a little differently. not how long a shepherd should have, but how he uses (or doesn’t use) the time he’s given. Considering that this is a common time when taking holidays, I thought this publication might be timely for many of you.
This is the right time to pause for a confession. I thought I should know that I often don’t practice my own advice. I have come to the conclusion that I usually write here because I have failed or failed in this advice. I thought I’d recognize him in case you think I’m writing like this because I’m already doing everything I have to. Managing my vacation has already been an obvious failure in my life.
- A few years ago.
- I lovingly clashed with a dear friend and fellow pastor because I was not enjoying all my vacation time.
- And in his rebuke.
- He explained to me why I should use every holiday given to me by the church.
- Which I had never done before Here is the basis of his prudent.
- Insightful and wise argument:.
The pastor never stops at the usual routine, we are constantly ‘on call’. The holiday period is the time when you can breathe away from the hustle and bustle, cool off and rest. All pastors know that we are not good for our people when we are exhausted, distracted and mentally and emotionally exhausted. wisely to achieve this goal.
Does your family still have to? Perhaps as important as the first point, this period is given so that your family has time when they do not have to share with the church, when you do not use all the time you have approved by the church for this purpose. , you deprive your family of focusing on care, communion and enjoyment.
How is it possible that many of our churches have existed and functioned one way or another in the last 50 to 100 years without us, and yet suddenly we come and develop this complex that our church can no longer live without us for one or more?Two weeks? Using all the vacation time you are given forces others to fight in your absence, shows them that they can do so without you for a while, and especially reminds the pastor that God does not fully depend on him for the works of the church.
We are consumable and need constant humiliity alerts to remember them.
As a result, for the last four years, I have used every holiday granted to me by the church since I was ordained pastor. All the above reasons my friend confronted me proved to be true and fruitful as long as what have I learned from spending all my vacation in recent years?Well, I intend to make the most of it next year. I’m on vacation for the next two weeks trying to practice what I preach (?writing).
If you’re a pastor, do what you can to take advantage of all your vacation this year. There’s half the summer left. If you are not a pastor, do your best to encourage your pastor to take advantage of you. You, your church, and your pastor will benefit from multiple benefits.