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One With A Shepherd – Chapter 2

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Dealing With the Physical Demands of Ministry

Basically the author takes the entire chapter and gives 12 ways to lessen the physical demands of ministry! We do most of them but not all of them. I have a feeling we might introduce a couple more of them though!

My thoughts:

1. Focus in your area of giftedness. Do not expend your energies elsewhere.

I didn’t do this at our current church at first. I was putting my energies into stuff that were not my forte. I was becoming exhausted and luckily one of our very wise deacon’s wives came to me and said, “why are you involved in these things? They weren’t on your list of things you wanted to be involved in when you candidated!” She was right and I prayed about it and set those two ministries aside and I am soooo glad I did it!

2. Prioritize and Organize

Do I need to say no to something?  Yes I do! Lol! We need to constantly re-evaluate what we are doing and why! This is an ongoing process!

And there you have it my thoughts on chaper 2. Have a great day!

One with a Shepherd – Chapter 1

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Let me just start off my saying, I am REALLY enjoying this book!

Okay, so clearly I am not going to have enough time or space to share everything I have learned or that has impacted me in some way. I would have to transcribe the whole book and that is plagiarism!

So I decided to share two or three things that impacted me along with a VERY short summary of each chapter!

SUMMARY:

Essentially this chapter talks about the role of women, both young and old through the Titus 2 passage. Then the author applies it to both the older and younger pastors’ wives. (I am obviously a younger pastor’s wife with young children.)

AH HAH THOUGHTS:

1. It was a great reminder that my first ministry is to my husband and children. So many times we (as in pastors’ wives) get bogged down with everything that needs to happen and we forget about the most important treasures God has given to us.

2. Despite all the craziness our own discipline is super important and will also carry over to our own children.

Obviously we know these things…but we sometimes we need reminding AND re-energizing!

One with a Shepherd

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It’s no secret…I have been completely open about being a pastor’s wife and quite honestly, I love it…well most of it!

So as my dear hubby has been working so very hard on his Masters of Theology (ThM for short) we (as in our family of six) have embarked on almost every journey to Michigan with him! Well my dear friends my very intelligent hubby graduated this past week and I am so very proud of him! He would have graduated with honors had the school recgnized ThM students who attained honors. Anyway as a thank you they gave all of the graduates wives a gift. It was beautifully wrapped, and it was obviouly a book……oh boy one more book…lol. I don’t really think that way though; I LOVE books!

So as I got back to the camper; I opened it! And the book was: Continue reading “One with a Shepherd” →