{"id":44,"date":"2007-02-12T12:36:03","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T18:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2011-03-07T11:37:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T17:37:13","slug":"assess-equip-let-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/assess-equip-let-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Assess, Equip, Let Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swerve.lifechurch.tv\">Craig Groeschel<\/a> just taught a great series which included thoughts about people doing too much and therefore getting burnt out. \u00a0He&#8217;s also started a\u00a0<a title=\"Doing Too Much\" href=\"http:\/\/swerve.lifechurch.tv\/2007\/02\/12\/dont-do-it-all-part-one\/\">series of blog posts<\/a> on the subject. \u00a0I think this concept applies to everyone in church ministry, and it&#8217;s something I desperately need to work on. \u00a0So, worship leaders\/tech directors, are you one who does the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Won&#8217;t allow another worship leader to lead because you&#8217;re afraid they won&#8217;t do it right?<\/li>\n<li>Always micro-managing the video projection or mixer instead of teaching your servants to do it?<\/li>\n<li>Not equipping your servants well, and consequently having things fall apart when you happen to be gone?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have been guilty of all of the above and need to shift my thinking. \u00a0<strong>There are a lot more, but the truth is, Biblically, we are called to assess what our gifts are and know what we do well; realize we can&#8217;t do everything, so therefore equip others to help us; and let go of our pride that says that it will only be successful if we do it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>When we constantly need to do things ourselves, we do two things: \u00a0we give ourselves the <em>burden <\/em>and we make ourselves the <em>focus.<\/em> We need to let others help lighten our loads so that they, too can be involved, and we need to make <strong>Jesus<\/strong> the focus and not ourselves.<\/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\/assess-equip-let-go\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"595\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Groeschel just taught a great series which included thoughts about people doing too much and therefore getting burnt out. \u00a0He&#8217;s also started a\u00a0series of blog posts on the subject. \u00a0I think this concept applies to everyone in church ministry, and it&#8217;s something I desperately need to work on. \u00a0So, worship leaders\/tech directors, are you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","category-training"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}