{"id":1294,"date":"2010-05-12T06:25:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T10:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2013-06-19T11:14:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T15:14:29","slug":"dobbins-on-pastoral-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"Dobbins on Pastoral Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/gaines-dobbins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1295\" title=\"gaines dobbins\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/gaines-dobbins.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a>Another Baptist voice from the past on the importance of oversight and pastoral care:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The leader of a church must love his people.\u00a0 He must watch over them with the tender solicitude of a shepherd.\u00a0 He must exercise wise oversight of their lives, thinking ahead and planning ahead for their welfare, keeping them busily and happily at work, as a good overseer with a group of workmen under his direction.\u00a0 He must add to his love the quality of vision and authority, so that his people will not only be protected from spiritual danger, but led to highest usefulness and effectiveness in Christian service.&#8221;\u009d 20<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0 Gaines Dobbins, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000857IS4?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B000857IS4\">Baptist Churches in Action<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"zptrupnukydrygmvjvbg\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000857IS4\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em>.\u00a0 Nashville, TN: Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1929.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Baptist voice from the past on the importance of oversight and pastoral care: &#8220;The leader of a church must love his people.\u00a0 He must watch over them with the tender solicitude of a shepherd.\u00a0 He must exercise wise oversight of their lives, thinking ahead and planning ahead for their welfare, keeping them busily and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1294\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Dobbins on Pastoral Care&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2828,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/2828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}