Top Ten Things Your Pastor Is NOT Thinking About 5 Minutes Before Worship Begins

10. Last week’s committee meeting

9. Next week’s committee meeting

8. That issue you’ve been thinking about all week so you could bring it up the next time you saw the pastor

7. Paper towels in the men’s room

6. The name of that couple who sat behind you two weeks ago

5. The most recent social media controversy

4. That sermon from 5 weeks ago about that guy in the Old Testament

3. The air conditioning

2. Lunch

And the number 1 thing your pastor is not thinking about 5 minutes before worship begins:

1. Finding you in the crowd to give you a personal greeting

Most likely, your pastor would be glad to visit about any of those things during the week, but right before worship their focus will be elsewhere. Don’t be offended if the pastor seems preoccupied or disinterested in one of those topics at that moment. There are dozens of details that have to be taken care of for a worship service to go well, and the pastor is most likely juggling many of those while focusing on the sermon and the intended purpose of the service that day.