A Different View

I was blown away this morning when it was asserted that I abuse volunteers at Rock Canyon Church. Abuse?! Quickly I reflected on how I had been working that morning and I couldn't think of anything overt I had done so I asked them to expand on it. My abuse is asking people to come in an hour earlier than before. Well, not really an hour early, but at the same time as before even though the service has moved back an hour. That gives people an extra hour to setup. My hope from that was that people would have time to solve problems on their own. I think when it comes down to crunch time, the easy way out for everybody is to go tell Tom and he fixes it. The downside is that I'm trying to prepare my own work and myself to do the work. Then it was asserted that I was being selfish...and that may be true. I'll have to give this some thought. I know it doesn't feel like a privation getting up an hour early to be able to work for God but I certainly haven't been successful in passing that on to the volunteers!