My experience is the pastor usually needs to worry about the leaking faucet in the ladies restroom and making sure the furnace gets inspected and the mail is picked up and the new family is greeted at the door and check to see if the flowers are delivered to the funeral home and and and and and...
It isn't so much that the pastor is "lazy" but that the Deacon Board and the Trustee Board and the Deaconesses and everyone else is lazy. I can't tell you the times I've come into the church to change some light bulbs or do something else to find our pastor there changing a thermostat or sweeping up some debris from the children's program that day.
These are things that should not even have to cross his mind much less take care of. That is why there is a Trustee Board and a Deacon Board and so on, to allow the pastor the time to pray and study and visit the sick and go door knocking and all the things he NEEDS to do.
So no, the pastor isn't overworked when the rest of the congregation realizes that the church building is THEIR church building and not his. When they realize the ministry of the church is THEIR ministry and not his.
I realize that usually 20% of the membership usually performs 80% of the work and giving but sometimes I want to grab folks by the ears and see how far I can toss them into the creek. Only sometimes. The other times is when I want to get REALLY upset
