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How Relational is Your Serving?
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 When serving, balance matters. When asked to volunteer, you weigh the time and effort involved against the time and effort you’re already giving at home, at work, and elsewhere. You also might weigh and balance your short-term serving against ongoing serving and informal serving, such as within your family, against serving in an organization. There's no right or wrong; everyone's balance will be different.
But when impact is important, when ‘making a difference’ is our goal, we will be especially intentional about balance between relational and non-relational serving. Continue
Life is complicated. Life is stressful. Your employer wants you to squeeze more work into the same hours, the kids need help with their homework, your elderly relative needs your assistance, and there are important papers somewhere in that pile of unsorted mail. . . .
You love your Lord and you love your church. You know God wants us all to serve, and you see so many needs, important needs, at church. Plus the school and the kids’ activities need volunteers, and you want to serve your community, too. No wonder we’re so easily buried under, and burned out by, our volunteering. Volunteering too often adds stress and complexity to our lives. . . .But you can serve and volunteer in a simple, non-draining, God-pleasing way. Read more.
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