{"id":1390,"date":"2016-04-18T08:46:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T12:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trainchurchleaders.com\/practicum\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2025-05-24T14:57:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T18:57:58","slug":"purposeful-scheduling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trainchurchleaders.com\/practicum\/purposeful-scheduling.htm","title":{"rendered":"Purposeful Scheduling"},"content":{"rendered":"
If you have not read the section of the site on Church Purpose, please do so now in order for this practicum to be most helpful to you. Click below:<\/em>
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Church Leadership Basics: God’s Purpose for the Church<\/a><\/strong><\/center><\/div>\n

We schedule meetings. We schedule people to conduct ministry in the different time slots. We schedule rooms for the various ministries to be used at varying times. Sometimes it may seem like a tedious task but like everything we do, it too needs to be run through the grid of who we are in Christ and His design and purposes for the Church.<\/p>\n

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A good starting place is with what Jesus indicated as the two greatest commandments — to love the Lord with all of who we are and to love our neighbor as ourselves (Matt. 22:35-40).<\/p>\n

All we do should hinge around these priorities, making even scheduling purposeful.<\/p>\n

Scheduling as though Loving God is Our Primary Purpose<\/h2>\n

Jesus said the number one priority is to love God with all of who we are. Think about the way you schedule meetings and how you schedule people for ministry. Ask yourself the following question:<\/p>\n