{"id":2271,"date":"2012-11-30T05:26:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T09:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2013-06-11T13:04:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T17:04:35","slug":"pastors-as-fathers-caring-for-each-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=2271","title":{"rendered":"Pastors as Fathers, Caring for Each Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccel.org\/ccel\/calvin\/calcom42.vi.iv.iii.html\">Commenting<\/a> on Paul&#8217;s statement that he cared for the Thessalonians as a father (1 Thess 2:11), Calvin articulates an important aspect of pastoral ministry.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>unquestionably<strong>, no one will ever be a good pastor, unless he shows himself to be a\u00a0 <em>father<\/em> to the Church that is committed to him<\/strong>. Nor does he merely declare himself to be such to the entire body, but even to the individual members. For <strong>it is not enough that a pastor in the pulpit teach all in common, if he does not add also particular instruction<\/strong>, according as necessity requires, or occasion offers. Hence Paul himself, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccel.org\/study\/Acts_20:26\">Acts 20:26<\/a>, declares himself to be <em>free from the blood of all men<\/em>, because he did not cease to admonish all publicly, and also individually in private in their own houses. <strong>For instruction given in common is sometimes of little service, and some cannot be corrected or cured without particular medicine<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenting on Paul&#8217;s statement that he cared for the Thessalonians as a father (1 Thess 2:11), Calvin articulates an important aspect of pastoral ministry. unquestionably, no one will ever be a good pastor, unless he shows himself to be a\u00a0 father to the Church that is committed to him. Nor does he merely declare himself &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=2271\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Pastors as Fathers, Caring for Each Member&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":[79,171,56,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271"}],"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=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2503,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}