{"id":3538,"date":"2006-06-29T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3538"},"modified":"2006-06-29T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T18:24:00","slug":"on-pastoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3538","title":{"rendered":"On pastoring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does Ministry Fuel Addictive Behavior? – LeadershipJournal.net<\/a>: “But here is reality. Well-meaning pastors can work 80-hour weeks and still not be able to please their flocks.” (HT Eternal Echoes)<\/p>\n

I was told something very interesting yesterday. When pastors are under stress, they lose things in the following order:
1st Their wider reading;
2nd Their prayer life;
3rd Their sense of humour;
4th Their humanity.<\/p>\n

I’m coming more and more to the conclusion that the cultural expectations on ministers need to be put through the blender. I think often of One Salient Oversight’s comment<\/a> about teaching being the essential part of ministry (for the truth is pastoral), and also of some of my hassles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The old is dying and the new cannot yet be born. In the interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. (Gramsci)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Quite what this means for where I am I do not yet know. I’m pretty sure I am where God wants me though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Does Ministry Fuel Addictive Behavior? – LeadershipJournal.net: “But here is reality. Well-meaning pastors can work 80-hour weeks and still not be able to please their flocks.” (HT Eternal Echoes) I was told something very interesting yesterday. When pastors are under … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-V4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}