Lessons from the Parsonage
If you have been reading these articles for sometime, I think you are about to notice something about future articles: they are about to become a whole lot more practical and realistic. I am now writing from the perspective of a fellow worker in the trenches. My new church has a parsonage next door to the church. Although we don't plan to live there all the time, we wanted to fix it up for those times when we did want to stay there, and, most of all, to have parties on Friday night and invite prospects, absentees and members to attend. The parsonage was not in too bad of shape, but, there is no better time to paint than when there is no furniture in the way. And, while we were at it, the church agreed to put in some new carpet and linoleum and some other odds and ends. The church volunteered to begin working on it before I came, but I had the grand idea that we should work on it together as a great bonding experience. I was picturing a one-day, "barn-raising" kind of eve