If someone were to take a survey of all the people in your field and how much time you spend on each of the activities in your life… what would the results look like?

Now, what if they expanded that survey to include not only your professional life, but your family and home life. And your leisure and your spiritual life.

Well that’s exactly what LifeWay Research has tried to do with my profession: pastor.

I’m always a bit tickled that so many people seem interested curious about “What does a pastor do during the week?” Well, here you may have your answer.

I can’t say that I’m too surprised by the responses that were given. I would say that my answers would fall pretty much in line with most of the answers given, although I probably spend more than 20 hours with my family (which includes all day Saturday, usually) and more than 12 hours in sermon preparation (which by the way, is what most of us do during the week! =D).

For those interested curious:

Full article here.

And here are two graphical breakdowns of some of the results. Anything surprise you? What’s your reaction?

[h/t: Ben Dubow, www.faithautopsy.com]