{"id":528,"date":"2009-08-29T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=528"},"modified":"2009-08-29T08:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T12:43:00","slug":"questions-for-pastoral-candidate-to-ask-a-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"Questions for Pastoral Candidate to Ask a Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year I posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=17279588&amp;postID=2611401528980202427\">the value of a church asking good questions of pastoral candidates<\/a>.  In the comments <a href=\"http:\/\/bjmaxwell.com\/\">Barry Maxwell<\/a> asked about a list of questions for such a candidate to ask the church.  Just today I read <a href=\"http:\/\/unashamedworkman.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/27\/41-questions-to-ask-a-potential-church\/\">a list of good questions for a pastoral candidate to ask from Colin Adams, a Baptist pastor in the UK<\/a>.  Questions to be asked will inevitably vary based on settings of the church and pastor (age, family, etc.), but this is a good starter.<\/p>\n<p>HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/theologica.blogspot.com\/\">JT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year I posted on the value of a church asking good questions of pastoral candidates. In the comments Barry Maxwell asked about a list of questions for such a candidate to ask the church. Just today I read a list of good questions for a pastoral candidate to ask from Colin Adams, a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=528\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Questions for Pastoral Candidate to Ask a Church&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":[175],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528"}],"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=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}