Either You're a Lazy Pastor or Your Church is Dead and You Don't Even Know It or You are Used to It If…
1- You are not personally and intentionally active in Missions and Evangelism.
2- If no one gets saved in your church services, no one gets baptized or no visitor and new members on the roll.
3- If you pull your messages from the book, internet or some form of media. You don't study and prepare your own Sermon.
4- You are not prayerful, you are not excited to study your messages and preach the Word, and you're satisfied to preach to the same faces every Sunday and Prayer Meeting; if you still believe in 'Prayer Meeting'.
5- If you have NO activity this week, no Car/Cars in your huge Parking Space during the week, except on Sunday Morning, and the Chairs and Computer desk, and library in your office are dusty.
6- If you have no Monthly Plans, Short-term Plans, Annual Activities, and Long-term Plans for your church, and your Mission work. If your church did not multiply since it started- that's even worse.
7- If your church does not have an Outreach, it means it is not doing Spiritual Enrichment to the people in your pews.
8- If you have no Discipleship Program, Bible Studies or Follow up Programs for your Visitors- you are just acting like a Club. Even Clubs, and businesses has Follow up plans for their members and customers- churches must do the same. Delegate the Tasks.
9- if you have NO Youth and Children's Reachout Plan- your church is in its way to Merging just to survive, Closing or waiting for all the Elderly to not be able to support your church because they are immobile already.
10- If you don't have the 7 'Ps' such as: a) Prayerful life. b) Plan for yourself with the church. c) Programs with your church for the Community and neighbors. d) Persistency to work hard. e) Perseverance to stay Focus to succeed. f) a heart to Prosper for the glory of God. and you don't g) Practice what you Preach. Then you are on your way to failure and your church will be a candidate for the "Church Closing" Statistics. You are accountable to God for being the Pastor of your church.
If you can't reverse all these, I suggest you find some other things to do. Pastorate might not be for you. Remember you're not there for the Salary and comfort, you're there because you were Called by God to be the Pastor of the church. Now, get out of your Comfort Zone and find a place to Pray and Search your heart!
You should be at your best because God will require faithfulness from His stewards. (1 Corinthians 4:1-2 KJV) "Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. [2] Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful."
Ely Roque Sagansay
Minister/Missionary/Author
