{"id":81,"date":"2006-03-09T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2013-07-03T11:17:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T15:17:13","slug":"biblical-want-ad-for-pastors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Biblical Want Ad for Pastors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">After discussing Paul&#8217;s farewell to the Ephesian elders in Acts 20 ( a passage rich in instruction for pastoral ministry), <a href=\"http:\/\/murtsub.blogspot.com\/\">one of my students<\/a> produced this want ad:<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">WANTED: Pastor\/Shepherd<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Description<\/strong>: Teach and Preach<\/p>\n<p><strong>Search Committee Member<\/strong>: Holy Spirit<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6666;\">WARNING<\/span><\/strong>: <strong>Do not apply if afraid of:<\/strong> suffering, tears, persecution, hatred, misunderstanding, hard work, low pay, humility, rejection, affliction, exhaustion, mental anguish, holy kisses, or worn knees<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please apply if you:<\/strong> preach repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After discussing Paul&#8217;s farewell to the Ephesian elders in Acts 20 ( a passage rich in instruction for pastoral ministry), one of my students produced this want ad:WANTED: Pastor\/Shepherd Job Description: Teach and Preach Search Committee Member: Holy Spirit WARNING: Do not apply if afraid of: suffering, tears, persecution, hatred, misunderstanding, hard work, low pay, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=81\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Biblical Want Ad for Pastors&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\/81"}],"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=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3868,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/3868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}