rod rambles on about the obvious

I've been thinking a lot lately about how being about the wrong thing, or the right thing in the wrong way, or the right thing for the wrong reasons, or etc... has ramifications beyond the specific thing affected by one's input or involvement. Namely, being about the wrong thing, most likely means that we are not about the right thing. Maybe that seems obvious. But its not so obvious when we're in the midst of it. This, I think, is often a problem in churches. We are usually so in need of help in certain areas that we recruit anybody willing to succumb to our begging. There are times when we serve in an area where we're not meant to be. This is often evidenced by inefficiency or even negative results. But there are equal or greater negative consequences of the neglect that is caused by our not being of service in the area where ARE meant to be. We don't have time to be about what we are supposed to be about, we are too busy being about something else. Maybe something equally important, but not our thing.
So, this is a simple equation. Standing in the wrong place is a double error. Not only are we wrong, we are also not right. Wrong = not right. It is deeper than that because we are talking here about two separate areas, the one in which we are wrong and the one in which we are not right. We've messed up one and we've messed up the other. One is commission and the other ommission.
Beware, because as I've thought about this, I've chased some pretty wild rabbits and observed some pretty bizarre irony that I think warrant a good blogging.