THE OFFICIAL RULES FOR PASTORS
Everyone’s heard of Murphy’s Law (“If anything can go wrong, it will”), Parkinson’s Law (“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”), and the Peter Principle (“In every hierarchy, each employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence”). Paul Dickson’s The Official Rules lists hundreds more such rules. They govern all aspects of our public and private lives, and I got to thinking that there must be similar laws governing the lives of our pastors. (Apologies to Dickson and other –long forgotten — sources. P.S. The order bears no relation to their significance!) Archimedes’ (20th Century) Principle: “When a body is immersed in water . . . the phone rings.” Or, when a pastor’s family is immersed in a meaningful tea-time discussion, the phone rings (someone wanting someone else’s phone number), and the door-bell rings (someone wanting to get into the church building to recover the umbrella left there last Sunday). Church Growth Truisms:…
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