Rule #5: Church Cannot/Must Not Be Your Only Social Connection

If you're church is your only social connection...you are headed down a slippery slope.

If you are continually at church doing or being involved, you stand a great chance of suffering from burn-out. If you are always the one that is there for every event, every cleaning day, every work day, every outreach, and do nothing outside of those church sponsored events....trouble could be brewing. You could be an official member of the "Us 4 and No More" Club, and you don't even know it. (more on that club later)

I'm not saying don't be involved, or not to serve. I'm saying don't make the church your entire center of life. That spot is reserved for your relationship with God (refer to Rule #1). And that relationship should not be based on how much you do for your church. If it is...that's a whole other problem.

It is imperative that you live a balanced life with social interaction other than your church or church work events, to avoid or recover from church burn out.

Spend time with your spouse, your family, or some good friends away from the church spectrum. Go outside and throw something on the grille, (it's very therapeutic...well for me at least) invite friends over and laugh..."A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones." Proverbs 17:22

Come on...get outside...let out a good laugh...and let those bones live baby! :)