Ministry is hard work. If we were honest, it’s nothing like we imagined it in our minds eye. In my nearly 15 years of ministry I’ve learned that there are seasons where you rest, and there are seasons where you have to lean in. It’s in these seasons that we lean in that we have to be united at home. Our spouse has to be behind us fully, or we won’t finish the course that God has set before us. The thing I’ve discovered is you don’t have to overwork, you just have to work with your whole heart. We do this by showing up to work every day healthy. Healthy physically, healthy mentally, healthy spiritually, and healthy maritally. When you do that, your strengths will show up for you, your attitude shows up for you, your work gets done quicker, and you have a creative bent toward all your projects. If you’re healthy, you can bring health to those God has placed under your influence.
1 Timothy 3:1-7 (NLT)
This is a trustworthy saying: “If someone aspires to be a church leader,[a] he desires an honorable position.” 2 So a church leader must be a man whose life is above reproach. He must be faithful to his wife.[b] He must exercise self-control, live wisely, and have a good reputation. He must enjoy having guests in his home, and he must be able to teach. 3 He must not be a heavy drinker[c] or be violent. He must be gentle, not quarrelsome, and not love money. 4 He must manage his own family well, having children who respect and obey him. 5 For if a man cannot manage his own household, how can he take care of God’s church? 6 A church leader must not be a new believer, because he might become proud, and the devil would cause him to fall.[d] 7 Also, people outside the church must speak well of him so that he will not be disgraced and fall into the devil’s trap.
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