Ahh, reminds me of the business world and its evil tools - committees and meetings.

In many meetings, I have to remind myself, "What is the purpose of this meeting?  What are we trying to accomplish".  I think it has a lot to do with the meeting's leader (yes, myself included) getting sidetracked into other interesting and important things - just not important in the meeting context.

This can also be the same in church . . . this is what the leader of the church wants to impart to me . . . but is it what a supreme power (however one might define that) really wants of me at that time?