{"id":324,"date":"2008-03-06T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2008-03-06T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T20:43:00","slug":"i-am-like-james-and-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"I am like James and John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a perceptive, challenging poem for those of us who are in any sort of leadership.<\/p>\n<p>I am like James and John<br \/>Lord, I size up other people<br \/>           in terms of what they can do for me;<br \/>           how they can further my program,<br \/>                    feed my ego,<br \/>                    satisfy my needs,<br \/>                    give me strategic advantage.<br \/>I exploit people,<br \/>                    ostensibly for your sake,<br \/>                    but really for my own sake.<br \/>Lord, I turn to you<br \/>           to get the inside track<br \/>           and obtain special favors,<br \/>                    your direction for my schemes,<br \/>                    your power for my projects,<br \/>                    your sanction for my ambitions,<br \/>                    your blank checks for whatever I want.<br \/>I am like James and John.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Robert Raines, cited in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLiberating-Ministry-Success-Syndrome-Hughes%2Fdp%2F1581349742%3Fie%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1204836332%26sr%3D11-1&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Kent &amp; Barbara Hughes, Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; MARGIN: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a perceptive, challenging poem for those of us who are in any sort of leadership. I am like James and JohnLord, I size up other people in terms of what they can do for me; how they can further my program, feed my ego, satisfy my needs, give me strategic advantage.I exploit people, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=324\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;I am like James and John&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":[],"tags":[21,16,128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"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=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}