Making Excuses
In my column in the September issue of The Inside Track I’m going to be talking about some excuses leaders make for trying to do too much of the work themselves rather than equipping and blessing others into their ministry. I’ll give my blog followers a sneak peek at one of them:
“Nobody else will do it as well as I will.”
After all, nobody else cares as much about how it turns out as you do. And you’re a professional! You were called by God to care. You’ve tried to give away tasks to others before, but they didn’t do it as well as you would have or didn’t do it your way. No,the success of the ministry really depends on you. This leads to a corollary I could list here, except nobody wants to admit it out loud as an excuse: “I like being this important and I need the praise I get from doing it. It makes me feel noble to be a ministry martyr.”
My questions: Did you do it perfectly the first time? Might others need some experience just like you got in order for them to improve? Might their way be (gasp) better than your way? Isn’t that a good thing? Can you (like a coach) learn to see yourself as successful when your people (who actually play the game) succeed?
