LEADERS ARE PUNCTUALPrinciple:
Chronos is concerned about
the quantity of time and asks:
“What time is it?” Kairos is concerned
about the quality of time and asks:
“What is time for?”Chronos time tends to be characterized by doing; while kairos time tends to
be more concerned with being. Without the revelation of kairos, we just
go through life expending our chronos – or just “putting in our time.” It is
only a sense of kairos that gives meaning and purpose to whatever chronos
we may be entrusted with by God. Without a sense of the kairos of God,
we will be reduced to living our lives by the tyranny of the clock. We may
be very busy in going and doing – but we may be “hurrying big for little
reasons!”
It is only a sense of kairos that enables us to live by God’s compass rather
than by man’s calendar. It is only kairos that gives us direction in life and
gets us in sync with God’s timing. It is kairos that helps us balance our
doing by our being. It is chronos that asks the question: “Am I doing things
right?” But it is kairos that asks: “Am I doing the right things?” The whole
area of Time Management is concerned with the best use of chronos.
However, it is Spiritual Time Management that is concerned with kairos:
“Am I doing the right things? Am I living my life in step with God? Does my life
have a divine cutting edge to it? Is there eternal significance in what I am doing?
Is my purpose, God’s purpose? Is my will, His will? Is my time, His time? Has
my chronos been invaded and transformed by kairos?”
Principle:
Chronos asks: “Am I doing things right?”
Kairos asks: “Am I doing the right things?”A good leader is acutely aware of the natural time, or chronos, by which
we all live our lives – measured by the ticks of a clock...the numbers on
our calendar...or pages in our Day-Timer. He understands that this kind
of human time is very crucial because it marks out the days of his life and