I just wrote about the fact that my life has become fractured and my focus was every which way but where it should be. Today I want to spend some time on what I need to do to determine where my focus actually lies. Next I’ll look at where it should be. Hopefully this process can help many of you who wear many hats in ministry as well. Here are some steps I’m going to take to determine what my current focus is (particularly in music/worship ministry):
- What do I spend my time thinking about? Do I think about how to encourage, teach, and build up – or do I think about where I’d like things to be in the future and how they’re not there yet? Vision can’t happen without small steps in the meantime.
- What do I spend my time thinking about? I know that’s the same question – but this time I ask it wondering what I spend time thinking about when there’s “nothing else” to think about. Those places can be dangerous and I need to evaluate them regularly.
- Do things I need to do well become an afterthought for something else? For instance, does spending quality time planning and scheduling become an afterthought for being able to arrange some music or chart out a song? What’s more important?
There are many more questions I’ll be asking myself to determine where my proper focus should be. How do you step back and evaluate what needs to be changed in how you approach ministry?
