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Phelan Chapel - Workin' 5 to 9 01

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  Workin' 5 to 9
  Leadership's comprehensive look at how  much pastors work--and how they feel
about the load.
  by Edward K. Rowell
  출처 http://www.christianity.net/leadership/current/

 If I  hear one more crack  about pastors working  just one day a  week, I may
have to hurt someone."
 So said  my friend Rick as  the community's pastors gathered  for our monthly
lunch at  the El  Sombrero restaurant. "People  don't really believe  that, do
they? I work longer hours than anyone on my board."

 "I was away from home every night last week," groused Andy, as he reached for
the guacamole. "Go  tell my kids their  dad has an easy job  and see what they
say."

 "My deacons told me  I should slow down at church and  play a lot more golf,"
claimed Ron. "They're afraid I'm going to burn out."
 The conversation stopped. We stared, then burst out laughing.

 "It  could happen,"  Ron, the  group  comedian, insisted,  though  he finally
admitted, "Well, maybe what they said  was, 'You better not burn yourself out.
We don't want to have to  go through the trouble of finding your replacement.'
"
 Somewhere between  black humor  and burnout lies  the truth about  a pastor's
workload. To get at that  truth, Leadership asked the Christianity Today, Inc.
research  department,  assisted by  Davison  Dietsch  McCarthy,  to conduct  a
national survey to  determine how pastors spend their  time--and how they feel
about it. Almost 600 pastors responded to the survey, and their honest answers
challenged some long-held assumptions.

 Surprise 1:
 Who is driving pastors to work hard
 Almost half of pastors surveyed said  they are working too hard. (The average
work week of  our respondents was 55  hours per week. See "How  Does Your Week
Measure Up?" on page 89.)
 The study asked why. Are members' expectations of pastors rising?

 Perhaps,  but  less  than  one-fifth  of  respondents  reported  unreasonable
expectations from members.

 Does the pressure come from a church board that asks too much?

 Just 7 percent of pastors  felt unreasonable expectations from their church's
governing board.

 No, the person driving pastors is the one they see in the mirror. The reasons
pastors gave for working too hard were overwhelmingly self-generated:

  "I expect too much of myself"--68 percent.
  "I love what I do so much I don't always know  when to stop"--51 percent.
  "I find it hard to say 'no' "--40 percent.

 But the distinction between  your expectations and others' expectations isn't
always clear. "You  can say all the pressure comes  from yourself," says Peter
Strubhar of First  Missionary Church in Berne,  Indiana, "but the expectations
of what  a few people  think pastoral ministry  ought to  be are never-ending.
From time to time I think, If I'd do this one thing, it would make the critics
happy for a while. That soon becomes my expectation."
 In follow-up interviews, Leadership asked pastors how they combat unrealistic
expectations.

 One helpful practice is to conduct a daily time audit. Gary Blanchard, pastor
of  Assembly of  God  Christian  Center in  St.  Charles, Illinois,  explains:
"Vision-driven, passion-driven  people tend  to go  too far, too  fast without
stopping for course  corrections. The only way I  can evaluate my expectations
is to step back, daily, and reflect:
 "What did I do yesterday that mattered? How did I waste time? Did I veer from
my course or am  I still headed in the right direction?  Am I giving my energy
to the right  things? Without that critical review, I  tend to believe I'm not
doing enough--without stopping to examine the evidence."
 Such  reflection may  have the  added benefit  of helping  others  serve more
effectively in  the church. Eric  Carswell, rector of  Glenview (Illinois) New
Church, says,  "In the book The  Soul of the  New Machine, there's  an image I
relate to: flying upside down by the seat of my pants in the fog while smiling
and waving at the crowd. It's a big adrenaline surge to operate at a high pace
on short deadlines,  but I found that  few people were willing to  join in the
thrills and chills.

 "Our  administrative   coordinator  finally  said,  'You   really  thrive  on
craziness, but  I'm doomed to  either run myself  into the ground  or get left
behind. I won't continue to run at your pace any longer.'

 "I realized  that if I wanted  people to serve  with me, I'd have  to come up
with a  different strategy,  a different pace.  By doing better  planning, not
only  have  I  helped others  get  involved,  but  I've  actually become  more
efficient and met more of my expectations."

 Surprise 2:
 Where the time actually goes
 An oft-quoted statistic  from Juliet B. Schor's  The Overworked American says
that full-time  employees in the  U. S. worked  an average of  almost an extra
month per year in 1987 than they did in 1969.

 Is that true? And are pastors also working more?
 American  Demographics  writer   Cheryl  Russell  cautions  that  "[P]eople's
memories aren't  all they  could be.  . .  . On average,  the number  of hours
people recall working is significantly  greater than the number they record in
diaries."
 To  check  the  accuracy  of  our  survey, we  asked  sixty-two  pastors  who
participated  in the  original study  to  log their  time for  seven  days. We
discovered that pastors do accurately report the number of hours they spend in
ministry each  week; the time-log  participants also reported  an average work
week of 55 hours.

 However, in two key areas, pastors  tend not to remember how they spent those
55 hours.

  In administration. Pastors estimated they  spent about 14 hours each week in
leading  meetings  and worship services, and doing   administrative tasks. The
time logs,  however,  revealed  those same pastors  actually spent   almost 25
hours in such tasks--nearly double  what they estimated.

 It's no surprise  that many in our  study said they would like  to spend less
time in administration and in meetings.

  In prayer. Pastors  estimated they spent six  hours  each week in prayer and
personal   devotions. But those keeping  a time log   recorded four-and-a-half
hours. Perhaps  many  sensed  this disparity intuitively:  Three out   of four
pastors said they would like to spend  more time in prayer.

 Surprise 3:
 How large-church pastors spend time
 A common belief  of pastors is that with experience  and church growth, there
will be  more time to  give to  tasks of preference.  I recall talking  with a
senior pastor of a  large church when I was a solo pastor.  I said, "If I just
had some staff support, I'd sure spend more time preparing to preach."
 He looked wearily over his coffee cup  and said, "If I didn't have a staff to
support, I'd spend more time preparing to preach myself."
 Prophetic words. One  surprising result from our study  was that solo pastors
and senior  pastors spend the  same amount of  time in  sermon preparation: 11
hours each week. (And  73 percent of all pastors said  they would like to give
more time to sermon preparation.)
 The only real difference in the way solo pastors and pastors with staff spend
their  time is  this: Senior  pastors spend  two more  hours per  week leading
meetings and  services, while solo  pastors spend an  extra hour  each week in
pastoral care.
 Pastoring is  pastoring, and  the way  time is spent  shifts little  based on
church size.

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