{"id":810,"date":"2010-02-21T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=810"},"modified":"2010-02-21T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T16:11:00","slug":"good-management-and-pastoral-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=810","title":{"rendered":"Good management and pastoral care"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bishop Nick<\/a>: “Because the dichotomy between \u2018pastoral\u2019 and \u2018managerial\u2019 is a false one \u2013 and a dangerous one. What some people mean by \u2018pastoral\u2019 (when asking for it in a bishop) is someone who won\u2019t challenge, who is malleable and won\u2019t interfere too much. But pastoral care begins with getting the administration, communication and \u2018business\u2019 right: how do you respect someone who says they care for you pastorally when they then double-book you, fail to reply to letters or emails and don\u2019t do what they promise to do?<\/p>\n

A bishop is called to be an accountable steward of the resources of people and stuff\/things. He is not called primarily to be \u2018nice\u2019 or popular. If niceness and popularity follow, then that is fine; but episcopal leadership and ministry are not good for people who want to be everybody\u2019s friend. The alternative to good management of the resources God gives us is, presumably, bad management. Can anybody show me how bad management equates to good pastoral care?”<\/p>\n

Something I’ve been pondering a lot.<\/p>\n

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Bishop Nick: “Because the dichotomy between \u2018pastoral\u2019 and \u2018managerial\u2019 is a false one \u2013 and a dangerous one. What some people mean by \u2018pastoral\u2019 (when asking for it in a bishop) is someone who won\u2019t challenge, who is malleable and … 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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","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-d4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","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=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}