{"id":4050,"date":"2005-10-01T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-01T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=4050"},"modified":"2005-10-01T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-01T16:57:00","slug":"the-future-of-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=4050","title":{"rendered":"The future of ministry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The emphasis for ministers, he says, will be on &#8220;ranchers&#8221; instead of &#8220;shepherds,&#8221; those capable of being overseers who direct congregations and encourage members to make decisions.&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20051001\/OPINION\/510010396\/1002\/OPINION\">See article here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chimes with other things I&#8217;ve been working through, of course&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(hat tip to Titusonenine)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The emphasis for ministers, he says, will be on &#8220;ranchers&#8221; instead of &#8220;shepherds,&#8221; those capable of being overseers who direct congregations and encourage members to make decisions.&#8221;See article here Chimes with other things I&#8217;ve been working through, of course&#8230; (hat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=4050\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-13k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050","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=4050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}