- In a business meeting at the job, you’re boss says something you agree with and you respond with a hearty, “Amen!”
- As you stand to preach on Sunday, you wonder if you remembered to clock in.
- In the break room, you’ve been known to announce, “Let us ask the Lord’s blessing on this food.”
- You take your Bible, briefcase, and box cutter to church.
- You can squeeze in a hospital visit during your lunch break.
- You have written sermon outlines with Sharpies on cardboard.
- When coworkers ask about your weekend they say, “So what did you do over the weekend? …oh, wait…never mind.”
- You wonder what full-time pastors do with all of their free time.
- Newbies on the job don’t know whether to use your given name or call you Father, Reverend, or Pastor.
- Multi-tasking is not efficiency – its survival.
- Your idea of a vacation is locking yourself in your office and studying all day.
- You enjoy the frightened look on your coworker’s face when you jokingly tell him that you mentioned him in your Sunday sermon.
- You don’t preach reruns, you preach”The Best Of”.
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September 19, 2007 at 6:50 am
lol
Gotta say the orange truck on pink flowers is such a bad clash, even I noticed!
September 19, 2007 at 7:54 am
I like the new format. The pink flowers are great because they are TULIP’s. Nice post on the bi-vocational pastor, I think you’ve been spying on me.
September 19, 2007 at 7:55 am
Jason,
Would you prefer an orange truck with orange tulips?
that gives me an idea…>
September 20, 2007 at 2:10 am
When I was the Associate at a big church I wondered how those bi-vo guys did it. Now I’m living it! (By the way, I recognize Bunyan and Spurgeon, but who are the other dead guys?)
September 20, 2007 at 3:07 am
Travis,
From left to right:
John Bunyan, John Leland, John Gill, Isaac Backus, Isaac McCoy, and Charles Spurgeon.
Just a few of the Calvinistic Baptist that have graced the pages of history.
October 11, 2007 at 3:15 am
I laughed out loud at the sharpie big, I actually do that…I work at a school and I sometimes outline and read and jot down things during my breaks…good stuff.
October 19, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Many times I have gone to start a meeting at my secular job by asking “who would like to open in prayer.”
October 20, 2007 at 7:52 am
Another: For some odd reason, the placard on your Study reads, “Employee Break Room.”
October 26, 2007 at 1:23 am
Leland and Gill I know. Backus and McCoy I do not. I’m curious, Joe, how many times a week do you teach?
November 15, 2007 at 6:01 am
You guys are fuuny. Great additions.
Travis, if you are asking how many times I preach/teach weekly it is 4.
Sorry for the absence. Life got crazy again.
November 24, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Joe,
Great site design. I see the tulips on display!!!
Bob
December 14, 2007 at 5:19 am
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December 24, 2007 at 2:21 am
You know you are bi-vocational when you spend your ride home returning church-related calls on your cell-phone.
I sympathize with the “closing meetings in prayer.”
I also get a lot of the whole “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t swear in front of a preacher.” I finally became tired of it. The next time someone apologized for using the Lord’s name in vain I said, “Don’t apologize to me, I’m not the one you blasphemed.”
December 27, 2007 at 11:57 pm
Wonderful! I just e-mailed this to my brother-in-law, who is a bi-vocational pastor. My hat’s off to men who do this.