Church Programs Can Be Time Consuming

If one is not careful, participating in church programs can take a whole lot of time. I have regularly cautioned pastors that if they are not careful, the demanding time commitment to make a program “work” can, as I like to say it, “eat their lunch.”

Out the window goes time to disciple believers in any other format than teaching and preaching larger groups. Out the window goes time to spend raising up the many new leaders necessary to actually move the vision of the church, through its people, out into the world.

A whole of the week can actually be spent “getting ready for Sunday. In a day, when less and less people actually attend a Sunday service regular enough to hear the preaching more than a few hours a month, the demand for the Sunday production can be fatal to the church connecting their people to the world around them.