Written by Matt Tullos


• If you have to use a remote to ring the Sunday School bell because you are keeping the preschoolers and teaching the Ladies Senior Adult class on closed circuit TV, you might need to delegate.

• If you come home from work one day only to discover that your son left for college, entered med school, and set up a practice before you realized he was gone, you might need to delegate.

• If your leadership base can all fit in your Neon, you might need to delegate.

• If the Deacon’s decide to attend worship on a rotating basis, once every quarter, you might need to delegate.

• If “Hello, I can’t help you I’m snowed under,” becomes your standard phone greeting, you might need to delegate.

• If your wife has to set up an appointment 3 weeks in advance in order to schedule an meal together for her birthday.

• If you have over fifty-five “…. for Dummies” books in your study, you might need to delegate.

• If you go back to school to learn how to play the bass and the basics of interpretive dance because your church is going contemporary, you might need to delegate.

• If you develop an involutary twitch everytime somebady says “can you..”, you might need to delegate.

• If the Church schedules an intervention for you with Dr. Phil, You might need to delegate.

• If you find that you have become the chairman of the deacons and the WMU, You might need to delegate.