Volunteer Centered Leader: Responsible to Rest
I am writing this after a day of rest. For me, I often rest on Sundays but every so often, Saturday works better.
So, how about you? What day is your day to rest? You see, you may be the leader of a single team, church, or a CEO, but no matter what you lead you need to rest. If you haven’t been taking a day each week to rest, you need a new attitude. Really.
God calls us to be responsible, but never to be in control – that is His job. So, when God tells us to rest a day each week, we better rest.
I don’t care if you are the only person that can do a particular job or have a rare skill. You need rest. Becoming a leader of leaders allows us to rest, because we can share the burden with others so that we may rest.
It also allows us to move on. Consider what :
Here is the reason God has instituted the year of jubilee: It is, first of all, to teach this great fact: The land is God’s. It doesn’t belong to anyone else. “The land shall never be sold in perpetuity. It cannot be possessed forever. It belongs to me.”
Your leadership role is on loan from God. Your job is on loan from God. Your local church, your volunteers, and your employees are on load from God.
It is time to rest.
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Great article. I just now read it (am I too busy?? :)
I heard Eddie Gibbs, author or Emerging Churches, speak once and he was talking about the pendulum swing from work to rest and back & forth. He said, “We don’t rest from our work, we work from our rest.” It’s in Christ we receive all we need to lead. I thought that was profound and it’s changed by rest routines.
Scott, great thought, thanks!