Title: Returning to Our First Love (2)
Series: Seven Churches of Revelation
Author: Tim Melton
Text: Revelation 2:1-7
Rachel Emma Silverman of the Wall Street Journal reports that academic studies have found that office workers go off-task-either because someone distracts them or they distract themselves-about every three minutes. . . That includes, phone calls, emails, Facebook, TickTock, coffee break, coworkers talking to each other, etc.
In 2023 TeamStage, an online project management company, published their "Workplace Distractions Statistics." In their research they found that getting back on track once one has been distracted takes about 23 minutes and 15 seconds. Taking this into consideration that would mean that during an 8-hour day approximately 55 minutes of work actually takes place.1
Whether true or not, that is almost comical. Why is it so hard to stay focused? It doesn't just happen in the workplace. It happens in many areas of our lives. It is so easy to get distracted and forget why we do what we do. Our job helps us provide for our family and serves as a place for us to be on mission with God. This is a grand purpose, but many times we lose focus and work becomes a chore that we despise. We have children and seek to raise them in a way that will honor God and allow them to be and to do everything God created them to be and to do. But then we get caught up in the sleepless nights or the difficult teenage years and turn to angry out bursts and complaining instead of parenting the children we have been given. We go to school to prepare for the future that God has planned for us but then we get bogged down in the homework, the tests and the papers. We grow apathetic and forget why we even go to school. In all of these examples we see a loss of focus.
We find this same losing focus in the Bible. In today's lesson in Revelation 2:1-7 we will read of a church in Ephesus that had lost focus and needed the words of Christ to turn their he ...
Series: Seven Churches of Revelation
Author: Tim Melton
Text: Revelation 2:1-7
Rachel Emma Silverman of the Wall Street Journal reports that academic studies have found that office workers go off-task-either because someone distracts them or they distract themselves-about every three minutes. . . That includes, phone calls, emails, Facebook, TickTock, coffee break, coworkers talking to each other, etc.
In 2023 TeamStage, an online project management company, published their "Workplace Distractions Statistics." In their research they found that getting back on track once one has been distracted takes about 23 minutes and 15 seconds. Taking this into consideration that would mean that during an 8-hour day approximately 55 minutes of work actually takes place.1
Whether true or not, that is almost comical. Why is it so hard to stay focused? It doesn't just happen in the workplace. It happens in many areas of our lives. It is so easy to get distracted and forget why we do what we do. Our job helps us provide for our family and serves as a place for us to be on mission with God. This is a grand purpose, but many times we lose focus and work becomes a chore that we despise. We have children and seek to raise them in a way that will honor God and allow them to be and to do everything God created them to be and to do. But then we get caught up in the sleepless nights or the difficult teenage years and turn to angry out bursts and complaining instead of parenting the children we have been given. We go to school to prepare for the future that God has planned for us but then we get bogged down in the homework, the tests and the papers. We grow apathetic and forget why we even go to school. In all of these examples we see a loss of focus.
We find this same losing focus in the Bible. In today's lesson in Revelation 2:1-7 we will read of a church in Ephesus that had lost focus and needed the words of Christ to turn their he ...
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