WORSHIP TEAM
SECRET HACK: DO MORE IN LESS TIME | Jon Nicol
Rachel is a Worship Pastor at a large church.
Do you feel like Ronnie or Rachel—you have
much (or any) support staff.
Even with a full-time tech and an administrative
more work than week? If so, I want to give you
assistant, she can’t get done what she wants As a result, Ronnie spends almost all his time a secret hack to help you take control of your
to get done. Every week, the work of Sunday, to make each Sunday happen while other time. I call it a ‘secret’ only because too many
staff meetings, and other ministry demands critical ministry work languishes. He doesn’t in the ministry world don’t use it, but they need
keep her running right up until Thursday have a consistent process to qualify new team to. You ready for it?
night rehearsal. And too often, the work even members. His training efforts are randomly splashes into Friday—her day-off. planned throughout the year (with little fruit for It’s called Parkinson’s law. I don’t have time to
all his extra effort). And, he has several potential get into the history and theory of it now, but
As she starts work each Monday, she often leaders on his team but no time to develop here’s the definition of it applied to time and
looks back over her previous week and them. task management: Work expands to fill the time
laments that she made no progress on her
allowed for it.
new musician mentoring program or revamping Rachel and Ronnie are experiencing something her team’s long outdated policy guide. And that most worship leaders face: The high Let me give you an example. Ronnie plans
that songwriter’s retreat she’s dreamed about demands of ‘this’ and ‘next’ Sunday push out to spend about thirty minutes after lunch
creating for the last two years? Didn’t even get the critical, but less urgent work of long-term searching Apple Music to find a new worship
a chance to think about that. ministry growth. And what do most vocational song to introduce next month. Three hours
worship leaders do when they absolutely need later, he has a list of five ‘maybes’ and one
Ronnie is a Worship Director at an awkwardly- to get non-Sunday mission-critical work done? ‘probably.’ And now, his afternoon is all but
sized church—you know the kind: big enough They work more hours. shot. What happened?!
to hire a worship leader, but too small to hire
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