I’ve spent much of the day behind closed doors, tending to work that simply must be tended to…
A part of me feels a little guilty. Students have just returned from fall break, and aside from my 8 a.m. Old Testament class and the couple of students that have dared to knock on my closed-door, I haven’t had much student interaction.
Makes me wonder if I’m choosing to spend my time the right way…
When do you find it OK to close your door in order to be “productive?” Should relationship time ever be sacrificed for tending to “tasks” when you serve as a leader within a ministry?
How do you balance your work/role as a faithful leader between relationships and tasks?
I’d love to know.
Grace and peace!
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Sometime the work behind closed doors is important because it allows for different types of impact on students later on. Obviously, it takes time away to prepare for class or for preaching in chapel. Also, if we see our roles as impacting the culture of spiritual formation at our universities in addition to our roles as ministers to students, some of our other work may actually change things more for students in the long run than the contact we miss out on that particular day.
Hey Rod!
I’m with you, but how do you find the balance here? I know that for me, as an introvert, it could be way too easy to justify closing my door for the sake of “future impact.”
What do you think?
Closing my door is something that I often feel the need to do, that I should do. But the feeling of being or seeming unavailable makes me leave it open.
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