{"id":5505,"date":"2026-08-03T17:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=5505"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:55:07","slug":"each-one-mature-pauls-pastoral-aim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=5505","title":{"rendered":"Each One Mature: Paul&#8217;s Pastoral Aim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back in March of this year, I was honored to give the <a href=\"https:\/\/calbaptist.edu\/academics\/schools-colleges\/christian-ministries\/student-opportunities\/lecture-series\">The School of Christian Ministries Lecture <\/a>at California Baptist University, where my friend, Dr. Chris Morgan, is dean. I have quite a few friends on the faculty there and really respect the work they are doing at Cal Baptist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of my ongoing reflection on the oversight of souls as the heart of pastoral ministry, I chose to speak on &#8220;Each One Mature: Pau&#8217;s Pastoral Aim in Colossians 1:28-29.&#8221; That text contains a powerful, but I think often overlooked statement about the goal of pastoral ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"877\" src=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-1024x877.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5506\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-1024x877.png 1024w, http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-300x257.png 300w, http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-768x658.png 768w, http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-730x625.png 730w, http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image.png 1092w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are interested, you can view the video <a href=\"https:\/\/calbaptist.mediaspace.kaltura.com\/media\/CBU%20School%20of%20Christian%20Ministries%20Lecture%20Series%20with%20Dr.%20Ray%20Van%20Neste\/1_kczq4pmj\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in March of this year, I was honored to give the The School of Christian Ministries Lecture at California Baptist University, where my friend, Dr. Chris Morgan, is dean. I have quite a few friends on the faculty there and really respect the work they are doing at Cal Baptist. As part of my &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=5505\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Each One Mature: Paul&#8217;s Pastoral Aim&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505"}],"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=5505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5507,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions\/5507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}