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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.
