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Your Timing in this Season
Welcome to your new season! Time and discipline in this season will matter for your assigned mission, especially for ministry. As a believer, discipleship is serving others with a mandated mission (Matthew 28:19-20); it is intentional ministry. Whether industry-related or ministry, every mission requires the ability to effectively engage with people. God’s standard requires your sacrificial personal time. In this season, you have a mission that is possible.
The Scriptures speak about time and seasons in serving (Ecclesiastes 3). There are planting seasons and harvest seasons. In this, planting out of season will decrease productivity and waste valuable resources, i.e., time, people. If you do so, you will fail to produce the BEST harvest from your labor.
Moreover, it is well documented that being able to manage time is a strong attribute of outstanding leadership. Time is a valuable commodity in ministry. Failure to manage your time, will hinder your accomplishments. Bringing people together in a timely way is what good leaders do. Respect people time. As a Servant of God, you must identify the most effective means to accomplish tasks in a timely manner. Analyze human and financial cost. What is the best way to accomplish the tasks for enlarging your territory of ministry purpose? The focus must always be what serves others, your targeted audience, for ministry. In other words, the objective of time management is serving your audience, without losing your most valuable resources – your team. How can this be accomplished? Flexibility!
Flexibility
In working with others, flexibility is a key part of any good plan to meet the needs of your people. Too often, leaders make plans around their personal needs instead of focusing on the needs of others. For instance, if you choose to serve others strictly around your personal wants, this will limit progress.
Servant leadership is about serving the needs of others. For example, it is highly unlikely that any Fortune 500 company will have great success unless they implore strategies that meets the greatest needs of their targeted community, including hours of operation. Therefore, a servant leader will always consider its congregation, audience, community, or stakeholders’ availability for the greatest outcomes.
Your unwillingness to compromise will stop or limit progress. Be focused to meet the mission of God. A plan that does not allow flexibility in leading, is one that will fail. Thus, flexibility is connected to time management.
Discipline in Mission
DISCIPLINE! A mission requires discipline. Discipline is the difference between your goals and your accomplishments (John Rohn).
Your leadership is ministry. As a leader, it is your calling to fulfill your duties to those you are serving. The areas of Christian discipline are scriptural: meditation, study, prayer, worship, praise, fasting and confession. These areas are applicable for leading with sound integrity. In other words, a lack of discipline with integrity will threatening your goals, harm your ability to lead and the ministry.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968), wrote: “May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership… Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity.”
Final Thoughts
Mahatma Gandhi’s words (1948) another inspiring world leader. wrote, “Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.” The mission is only impossible is you fail to lead wisely. Exhibiting Christ-life behaviors will inspire those you lead to do their best to produce good results. Your leadership matters to the mission that God have given to you. It is sacrificial for the body of Christ. God’s mission is possible.
Resources for Time Management
If you like more resources for time management, we suggest you may like this article: Managing Your Time as a Leader by (Paul & Stroh). We also suggest our blogs:
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