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11 April 2011
Step one in pastoring your volunteers is to be an example to your volunteers. A good leader never expects from his followers what he doesn’t first expect from himself.
It amazes me how many children’s pastors never participate in the main service or sit under their pastor’s ministry? I’ve actually seen children’s pastors get upset when their pastor asks them to be in at least one service per week. Your volunteers are watching your example.
When you are traveling with your children, what do the flight attendants tell you to do if the oxygen masks appear above you? Do you put the mask on your child first? No, you put on your mask first, and then you help your child. If you don’t take care of yourself first, you won’t have any life left to minister to your child.
The same is true in ministry. Ministry is so busy that I have to fight for my time to attend church, read the Word and spend quality time in prayer, but if I don’t do it, I won’t have anything to give to my leaders.
