AVOID LAZINESS






          Laziness is intolerable within the ministry. We should be the perfect example of a proper ethic. While we should not be “workaholic”, we should exemplify a pattern of DILIGENCE AND INTEGRITY.



          Many “will be” full-time ministers and simply lazy. Their desire to be full-time is to escape the discipline and difficult of the work place. Failing to recognize the work place as a mission field is an obvious indicator of misplaced affections.



          As a rule of THUMB, a minister should be able to successfully hold down and succeed at a job before entering full-time pastoring. The casualties of laziness in ministerial is very great. Learn to be diligent at the cost of the world, not the kingdom of God.



          Most people are incapable of self-management. Consequently, the majority of independent, business fails. Ministry is the EPITOME OF SELF-EMPLOYMENT. It is easy to create some reasons to sleep very late and wake up very late. This is the early stage of deceitfulness, lying and credibility. The minister has no one to tell him to pray for, or study, but to do his own office work. He sets his own hours and establishes his own priorities. He manages the office staff, a congregation and even his family and many more. He has all the demands of large corporation without the staff or resources to pull them together.

           Besides this, he meets demands with the highest degree of integrity. The church and the world scrutinize him. The slightest discrepancy brings additional pressure to an already intense situation. We encourage all of our BIBLE SCHOOL STUDENTS to go to school full-time, work and be involved in this ministry. The place is difficult, but it is a close to the ministry work-load as the gentlemen says. If one can succeed in this environment, it greatly increases his probability to succeed in the ministry

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