Delegating Tasks In the Small Church: Two Options and Six Lessons

“Delegate, pastor. Delegate.” I’ve heard that wise advice hundreds of times. Literally hundreds. In the first few years pastoring my current church, one of my deacons, named Ron Cook, said it to me constantly. Whenever he caught me doing something like stacking chairs by myself he’d walk by me, usually while lending a helping hand himself, and drop that little gem into my ear. “Delegate, pastor. Delegate.” This is an update of a post that was previously entitled, How to Delegate When There’s No One Around: Six Lessons I Learned the Hard Way. Why Delegating Is So Hard – And Necessary During the first few years at my current church I was a hurting pastor at a hurting church. The combination of those hurts led to two realities: There were very few people to delegate anything to Most of my motivation came from my own feelings of guilt When those combined, it led me to do too much of the ministry work myself – and see myself as martyr while I did it. But slowly, Ron’s words started taking hold. Eventually, I stopped offering excuses and started following his advice. Eventually, I discovered that there are two options when it comes to reaching a balanced delegation of tasks in a small church: Option 1: Do fewer activities Option 2: Do better discipleship training I highly recommend both.

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There are two options when it comes to reaching a balanced delegation of tasks in a small church:

Option 1: Do fewer activities
Option 2: Do better discipleship training

I highly recommend both.

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