{"id":1550,"date":"2010-10-29T05:30:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T09:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2013-06-17T14:04:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T18:04:32","slug":"john-gill-on-a-pastor-loving-his-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1550","title":{"rendered":"John Gill on a Pastor Loving His People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Gill in his<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/commentaries\/gills-exposition-of-the-bible\/titus-1-8.html\"> commentary on Titus 1:5-9<\/a> speaks of the love a pastor should have for his people.\u00a0 He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;if he is not a lover of them, their company will be disagreeable to him, and he will be of no advantage to them; and if he does not love the souls of men, he will not naturally care for their state, or be concerned for their good.&#8221;\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let us love our people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gill in his commentary on Titus 1:5-9 speaks of the love a pastor should have for his people.\u00a0 He writes: &#8220;&#8230;if he is not a lover of them, their company will be disagreeable to him, and he will be of no advantage to them; and if he does not love the souls of men, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1550\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;John Gill on a Pastor Loving His People&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":[93,26,143],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550"}],"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=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2738,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/2738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}