When I was doing an annual review with one of my youth team, I asked him why he wanted to continue in youth ministry.
His response slightly alarmed me. He said to me, ‘I did it last year so I might as well do it this year’.
In the secular world, many organisations have annual goals which they expect their employees to reach in a given time interval. ‘By the summer, we will have increased sales by 10%’ or something similar is what drives all the activity. The favourite word is ‘focus’. We heard it many times at the time of the Olympics when athletes, in their cameo post-event interview, often said the reason they had won their event was because they stayed focussed.
