{"id":1546,"date":"2010-10-26T16:20:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T20:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2013-06-17T14:06:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T18:06:49","slug":"buoyant-expectation-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1546","title":{"rendered":"Buoyant Expectation of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What essential for a pastor?\u00a0 Much could be said in answer to this question.\u00a0 Wayne Oates several years ago stated this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;the consummate requirement of him [a pastor] is that he depend devotedly upon the Chief Shepherd for his own spiritual sustenance and live in the buoyant expectation of his continual manifestation of himself.\u00a0 Titus calls this being &#8220;holy&#8221;\u009d and &#8220;a lover of goodness.&#8221;\u00a0 These terms of endearment of the life of a pastor lay the emphasis upon his consecration and devotion, without which all other qualifications are in vain and usually are consumed in their own vanity.\u00a0 Soren Kierkegaard has called this &#8220;purity of heart,&#8221;\u009d by which he means the power &#8220;to will one thing, and that is Christ.&#8221;\u009d (<em>The Christian Pastor<\/em>,<em> <\/em>60)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would differ with Oates on a variety of other points, but this is well stated.\u00a0 May we live in the buoyant expectation of God&#8217;s continual manifestation of Himself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What essential for a pastor?\u00a0 Much could be said in answer to this question.\u00a0 Wayne Oates several years ago stated this: &#8220;&#8230;the consummate requirement of him [a pastor] is that he depend devotedly upon the Chief Shepherd for his own spiritual sustenance and live in the buoyant expectation of his continual manifestation of himself.\u00a0 Titus &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1546\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Buoyant Expectation of God&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":[31,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546"}],"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=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2739,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}