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How to Avoid Burnout
Ever feel like jacking it all in, swinging off your guitar and lobbing it into the congregation? Here are six top tips to avoiding burnout this Autumn…
(1) PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST
What are your priorities? ‘Being’ with God, ‘being’ with your loved ones, ‘doing’ the stuff for God? So often we confuse ‘being’ with God and ‘doing’ for God, at the expense of the ones we’re called to love.
Brian Doerksen said recently in an interview for the Worship Central Podcast: “Staying with our relationships gives us the foundation and the authority to walk with the church. If anything, I’d encourage all worship leaders, worship musicians: don’t pursue your calling in worship at the expense of your marriage, at the expense of your calling to be a parent.”
The first principle to avoiding burnout is not to confuse your calling. For me, my primary calling is to love God and love my wife, and everything else comes way down the list after that. Keep the first things first.
(2) PURSUE THE HABIT OF HOLINESS
Holiness is not an optional extra for the great saints, holiness is not about religious observation: Holiness is a person. Pursue Jesus.
Pursue a close friendship with Jesus. Keep your accounts short with him. We all hear horror stories of leaders who collapse in a cloud of deceit and hypocricy, from Pastors to Presidents. So often the power of sin is in its secrecy, and the most effective way of breaking that power is being accountable to two or three close friends who you meet with on a regular basis. Ask each other how you’re doing, and then ask each other how you’re really doing.
We need to pursue the holiness as a habit, so that it becomes our default position when we’re under pressure, because it is these moments that count.
(3) LEARN WHEN TO SAY ‘NO’
‘No’ is a great word. You can’t put first things first and pursue the habit of holiness without saying ‘no’ to some stuff along the way.
In any church where God is on the move there will be things to do, places to be, meetings to lead, practices to get to, events to go to, more meetings.
Learn to say ‘no’. It can be really difficult, when that church leader is on the phone saying ‘we really need your help.’ But the bottom line is you can’t do everything. Jesus turned stuff down to escape to some secret place, to make sure he was putting first things first and pursuing the habit of holiness.
If ministry is, as John Wimber once put it, ‘meeting the needs of the world on the basis of God’s resources’, then we need to learn to be like Jesus and know when to pull back and recharge, because the needs of the world are endless. We mustn’t fall into the easy trap of thinking we can meet them with our own resources.
(4) BUT LEARN WHEN TO SAY ‘YES’
‘Yes’ is also a great word, but needs to be used with careful consideration. If I had a pound for every time someone who’s said yes to something has pulled out at the last minute, I’d be a rich man.
Jesus says let your ‘yes’ mean ‘yes’. We need to come through on the things we’ve agreed to do. If you suddenly find yourself unable to honour your commitments, something’s gone wrong. Pulling out of stuff may protect you from burnout, but it may also be causing others to burnout.
So think carefully about how to invest your time. Time is a precious resource, and like all precious resources, will always be in short supply.
There's a old business rule for testing objectives, the SMART Principle. Ask yourself these SMART questions about anything you want to throw yourself into:
S - Is it Strategic? Does this fit where I sense God is calling me? Is this a part of that vision. If God has given you a passion for releasing worship in the local church, then is this going to help do that, or is it going to be a red-herring?
M – Is it Measurable? Can you tell if you're growing as a result of doing this, is it helping you bear fruit that will last?
A – Is it Achievable? Do you have the skills and the capacity to take this on right now? While nothing is impossible with God, somethings are simply not going to work without us comprimising our priorities.
R – Is it Realistic? Is it realistic for you to be able to honour the commitment? Biting off more than you can chew is no fun for anyone. Don’t hurry to say yes if you think there’s a chance you’ll have to pull out.
T – Is it Time Specific? Can you be sure it is going to require a manageble amount of time? If agreeing to lead worship at something means a regular commitment, can you map out those times in your mind? Make sure you fully understand the time required, including the preparation time.
Ministry is great fun when you’re in the right place at the right time and no fun when you’re not. Learning to say ‘yes’ to the right things is a key way of avoiding burn-out.
Then once you've said 'yes', you'll know that because God has called you to do that thing, however small or insignificant, it takes on a whole new meaning. Honour your 'yes' and give it 110% of your commitment. Invest your ‘yes’ wisely and there will be no limit to what God can do through you.
(5) OVER-PREPARE
You can never prepare enough. Time invested in preparation is key to avoiding burn out. Billy Graham once said that if he knew he had three years left to minister, he would spend two preparing and one ministering. Jesus spent thirty years preparing for three years of ministry.
I love the story of Nelson, who kept a journal every day of his life in which he noted observations about the wind and weather. He knew a lot about wind and weather when it came to that crucial minute on the morning of the battle of Trafalgar. Instinctively, calling on years of dilligent preparation, he made a snap decision about what the wind was doing. He turned his fleet and sailed straight through the enemy fleet, winning the day. (But I guess he was not that prepared for the bullet that got him and rather spoilt his day...)
Preparation is everything. If we’re to be able to make it through the busy times alive and in one piece, we need to be preparing an excess in the less busy times.
(6) HAVE FUN
Ministry is not meant to be a burden, so enjoy every opportunity you get to serve God. I’ve just spent an exhausting 10 days away on a trip, and one thing that struck me about the trip was how much fun we had. I laughed so much it ached. It really kept us going. Over-intensity is not a fruit of the Spirit. Make sure you’re having fun.
So there are some thoughts - do feel free to add your comments on how you avoid going insane in the membraine when things get busy...
And see you all on the 18th Nov!
Al |
posted by Trond Westby @ 2:10 p.m.   |
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Eg må innrømme at eg ikkje leste heile, eg leste ikkje halve eingang...okei eg leste bare overskriften, men well done you...dette må ha tatt forever å skreve....kanskje eg ska lese det ein dag eg har litt bedre tid
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hehe, dette tror jeg jeg godt kunne hengt opp over senga, på kjøleskapet og litt rundt overalt. takk! ses i morgen, stå opp i god tid ;)
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way to go Monica. Travelt?
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Det e någen som har sagt at du ikkje kan brenna deg ud på någe du brenne for. Det tror eg ikkje e sant.
Tror mye av grunnen te at det mange ganger e vanskeligt å sei nei, e vist ein syns det e kjekt, og brenne for d. Ein må lytta te kjensle og magen så går alt bra, ok, ska ikkje sei merr nå....
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Hallaisen!
Dette var bra greie=)
LN
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heilt konge! first things first!
må bare få sagt det. veien du gikk!! heilt fantastisk!
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