Time Management
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Ministers should not spend too much time with business mat-
ters, settling church difficulties, or in long committee meetings—
To every man is given his work. Those who enter the ministry engage
in a special work and should give themselves to prayer and to the speak-
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ing of the Word. Their minds should not be burdened with business
matters. For years the Lord has been instructing me to warn our minis-
tering brethren against allowing their minds to become so engrossed
with business matters that they will have no time to commune with
God and to have fellowship with the Spirit. A minister cannot keep in
the best spiritual frame of mind while he is called upon to settle little
difficulties in the various churches. This is not his appointed work.
God desires to use every faculty of His chosen messengers. Their
mind should not be wearied by long committee meetings at night, for
God wants all their brain power to be used in proclaiming the gospel
clearly and forcibly as it is in Christ Jesus.—
Evangelism, 91
.
Do not waste time with chronic church grumblers—The min-
isters of Christ should take their position, and not be hindered in their
work by these agents of Satan. There will be enough of these to ques-
tion, and quibble, and criticize, to keep the ministers of God constantly
busy, if they will allow themselves to be detained from the great work
of giving the last saving message of warning to the world. If the church
has no strength to stand against the unsanctified, rebellious feelings of
church grumblers, it is better to let church and grumblers go overboard
together than lose the opportunity of saving hundreds who would make
better churches, and have the elements existing within themselves of
strength and union and power.—
Evangelism, 371
.
Jesus organized His day so working people could be minis-
tered to in the evening—All day He ministered to those who came to
Him; in the evening He gave attention to such as through the day must
toil to earn a pittance for the support of their families.—
Evangelism,
652
.
Take time for your family—Ministers’ children are in some cases
the most neglected children in the world, for the reason that the father is
with them but little, and they are left to choose their own employment
and amusement.—
The Adventist Home, 354
.
Do not spend too much of your time attending to home mat-
ters—Some ministers linger about their homes, and run out on the
Sabbath, and then return and exhaust their energies in farming or in at-