Do is a verb that calls us to action. This may seem counter-intuitive for most people who have been taught that, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” And while there is truth in that statement, the church seems to fail in their co-mingling with the pastoral staff to the point that they haven’t noticed that WE PLAN CONSTANTLY. With this in mind, when a pastor is lost from a church, some staff members, and department chairs will attempt to put programs and ideas aside, “until we find a pastor.”
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
This is the opposite of what we must do, we must DO our jobs well. Not just think our jobs well, or plan our jobs well, or meditate our jobs well, or even pray our jobs well.
The Lord has called us to be workers in his fields, and that cannot happen if we are constantly shut up in our offices. If we know what the Lord has called us to the church to be a part of, we must DO that job!
Even if what you do fails to accomplish what you had hoped, it has accomplished the most important thing. If we make sure that our plans include, and focus on, the people we serve, then our doing will always be fruitful. It may not be harvest season for your group yet, but the preparation that takes place when the pastor is gone, will pay dividends later in the church’s life.
But be ye DOERS of the word, and not hearers only… (James 1:22 KJV)
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