{"id":334,"date":"2008-04-17T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=334"},"modified":"2013-06-27T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T17:33:00","slug":"student-responses-to-baxter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Student Responses to Baxter, 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am once more teaching my Pastoral Ministry class and having students read Baxter&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FReformed-Pastor-Personal-Ministry-Classics%2Fdp%2F1573832014%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1208467044%26sr%3D1-6&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Reformed Pastor<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"swgwboykwavboxrscnkx\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. Last time I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/rvanneste.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/student-responses-to-baxter.html\">some student responses to reading this book<\/a>. Here are a few more from this years&#8217; interaction.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have never understood, the way I do now, the weight and burden of taking on the responsibility of shepherding the blood bought people of God. This book has caused me to say, &#8216;Oh, so this is what I am supposed to do.'&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A pastor is not someone who can just teach, but rather he is someone who has a deep care for his congregation and shows that care in the way he lives and interacts with others.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nearly every sentence is directly applicable to the contemporary pastor.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would have come out of this book with less had I been able to simply dash through it at a page per minute&#8230;. I was forced to work things out as I read them, forced to map out trains of thought as I went. It was very worthwhile, and I will relish reading more in the future that was written by dead holy men.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am once more teaching my Pastoral Ministry class and having students read Baxter&#8217;s Reformed Pastor. Last time I posted some student responses to reading this book. Here are a few more from this years&#8217; interaction. &#8220;I have never understood, the way I do now, the weight and burden of taking on the responsibility of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=334\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Student Responses to Baxter, 2&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":[86,12,56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"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=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3327,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/3327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}