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- You make yourself unavailable to the pastoral needs of your church members.
- You lose the opportunity for fellowship with other missionaries and church leaders.
- You can’t evangelise yet; you need to put more time into building the relationship.
- Sermons don’t write themselves, Bible studies don’t prepare themselves.
- It’s more important to train other people to do the work instead of doing it yourself.
- There’s an important meeting about proposed changes to the denominational organisational structure that you should be at instead.
- If you simply spend the time praying, God will do the rest.
- It’s better to put on an evangelistic event in the church, then you can control what happens.
- If you spend all your time having coffee and chats with friends, your co-workers might get envious.
- People might actually become Christians.
(And yeah, apart from the last, I’ve heard all of these.)