One of my former colleagues in ministry would often say that it is hard to evaluate what we are doing as pastors because “we’re not making widgets here.” What he meant was simply that there’s not really a report that can quantify our role unlike someone who can say, “I made XX widgets during my 8 hour shift today.” And that’s a struggle that comes in churches when trying to figure out how to evaluate how a pastor (or other church staff person) is doing at their job but it is also hard for the pastor in that we often don’t really see results of what we do. That’s why I love doing things like mowing my lawn - it gives me that physical feedback of something being done.
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The Second Gaze - Something You Made
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One of my former colleagues in ministry would often say that it is hard to evaluate what we are doing as pastors because “we’re not making widgets here.” What he meant was simply that there’s not really a report that can quantify our role unlike someone who can say, “I made XX widgets during my 8 hour shift today.” And that’s a struggle that comes in churches when trying to figure out how to evaluate how a pastor (or other church staff person) is doing at their job but it is also hard for the pastor in that we often don’t really see results of what we do. That’s why I love doing things like mowing my lawn - it gives me that physical feedback of something being done.