{"id":123,"date":"2007-09-21T07:19:14","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T13:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/21\/sharpen-your-strengths-delegate-your-weaknesses\/"},"modified":"2008-06-16T15:02:43","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T21:02:43","slug":"sharpen-your-strengths-delegate-your-weaknesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/sharpen-your-strengths-delegate-your-weaknesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharpen Your Strengths, Delegate Your Weaknesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s worship leader faces several challenges.\u00a0  Often we are responsible for so many things, including but not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arranging and producing music every week.<\/li>\n<li>Spiritually leading our volunteers.<\/li>\n<li>Scheduling volunteers.<\/li>\n<li>Planning services.<\/li>\n<li>Cultivating relationships.<\/li>\n<li>Practicing our voice or instrument.<\/li>\n<li>Preparing for services.<\/li>\n<li>Leading worship in services.<\/li>\n<li>Finding new music.<\/li>\n<li>The list goes on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We often get caught in the trap of thinking that we have to do all these things ourself.\u00a0  While that could be a noble task, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a wise one.\u00a0  What happens is that you end up putting your strengths on the back burner and not developing them, while doing tasks that are your weaknesses that you don&#8217;t really do all that well.\u00a0  I am probably the worst at being a disciplined scheduler.\u00a0  But, instead of working on becoming that, I should find another volunteer who takes joy in making a schedule and let them run with it.\u00a0  Perhaps you have a desire to write songs, but you&#8217;re realizing that it isn&#8217;t your strength.\u00a0  Someone in your congregation comes along who is a great songwriter.\u00a0  Let your pride go and let them cultivate that gift, while you better cultivate yours.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s always remember to maximize on others&#8217; gifts, while still maximizing on our own.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:50px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/sharpen-your-strengths-delegate-your-weaknesses\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"595\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s worship leader faces several challenges.\u00a0 Often we are responsible for so many things, including but not limited to: Arranging and producing music every week. Spiritually leading our volunteers. Scheduling volunteers. Planning services. Cultivating relationships. Practicing our voice or instrument. Preparing for services. Leading worship in services. Finding new music. The list goes on. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-worship-leaders","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}