Glad I don't play the piano

I'm glad I don't play the piano. I took a basic class in college and I've always wanted to learn, but right now I'm glad I don't play the piano. Let me explain. I'll start by listing the hats I wear, so to speak, at the congregation I serve. File clerk. Bulletin printer. Maintenance and repair. Copier tech. Media and sound tech. Sunday school teacher. Liturgist. Song leader. Preacher. Greeter. Community representative. Caller and card sender. College counselor. That's why, right now, I'm glad I don't play the piano or the congregation I serve would probably expect me to do that as well.
This thought came to me as I left the church this past Sunday morning. I had differing reactions to this train of thinking. First, I thought how many people might tell me that this is just the way it is. My other reaction, almost simultaneous to the other was guilt--"How can you be so selfish, so unChristlike as to resent serving others."
I struggle with both of these reactions. The first because I know that this is the reality for many pastors. I've heard the 80/20 rule man times. It might be the way it is, but I think, "Well, I don't like how it is, it's wrong." However, we're talking about 80/1 here. I don't look forward to spending the next 40-50 years of my life this way.
I struggle with the second line of thought because it isn't true. It is not selfish to have boundaries and I know it is not healthy for a church when the members are looking to the pastor or a tiny group to do most everything. I truly don't resent serving or wearing multiple hats. Actually, variety is one of the things I love best about being a pastor. However, I think lack of appreciation and lack of engagement is deadly for a congregation. I call it the "country club" mentality where a church begins to think, "Don't we pay the pastor(s) for that about everything and denies themselves the privilege of serving in Christ's body. This fee for service mentality is a wasting disease that sucks the life out of the church.
When we do not follow Paul's admonition to "work out our faith" through serving according to our gifts and abilities, our God-given gifts and abilities, our faith atrophies. Let me be clear. I do not intend to deny that faith is a gift of God, but the nature of our faith is that it requires action on our part. Think of it like a gift that if it is not opened and used, is not having its full effect in our lives.
Not only does a lack of service on our part hurt us, it hurts the body, the family into which God has adopted and placed us. Paul writes that the growth of the body requires "every part"doing its work. (Eph. 4:15-17) As a pastor, the growth of the body is a central concern for me.
As I mentioned above, it is healthy to have boundaries as well and this is where I need to grow. I need to do a better job of saying "no" even when it might mean eliminating something entirely. Do we really need bulletins? They are a recent development that the church did without for a few hundred years after the printing press was invented. Is their value as a communication piece essential? The same reasoning goes for visual media. In my plus column is the fact that teaching Sunday school is a short term commitment that ends after this Sunday.
So, who am I robbing of the opportunity to serve by taking on so much. Who needs to step up? Who can run the media, print bulletins, open the building, lead singing, read scripture, or represent us in the community? How can I better share these opportunities for service.
These have been my thoughts (edited somewhat for clarity) as I have prayed and mused about my frustration this past Sunday. Lord, help me to "prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ." Ephesians 4:12-13