The Equipping Pastor. . .

I just finished reading The Equipping Pastor by R. Paul Stevens and Phil Collins.

A couple of sections were affirming and disturbing to me. . . here is a statistic that will make you think:

• the average North American person spends some 88,000 hours on the job from the first day of full-time employment until retirement. Work occupies about 40% of one's waking life.
• In contrast, a dedicated Christian is estimated to spend as few as 4,000 hours in a lifetime in church meetings and church related activities.

Given these stats, they suggest we have made our spirituality into a leisure-time, discretionary-time involvement that provides a welcome relief from the boredom of much work or a challenge to the idolatrous demands of the marketplace. However, many of us know, that once our spirituality becomes the central driving principal of our lives, it compels to find God in everything, everywhere, and everyone.

Talk to me, do you agree or disagree with this statement?

Does it challenge in any way?