{"id":118222,"date":"2025-03-07T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=118222"},"modified":"2025-03-07T03:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T09:09:53","slug":"a-word-to-pastors-never-underestimate-the-power-of-a-phone-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=118222","title":{"rendered":"A Word to Pastors: Never Underestimate the Power of a Phone Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a biblical counselor, I have the privilege to spend innumerable hours in deep conversation with hurting people. I get to walk with them, pray for them, and support them in all kinds of spiritual, emotional, and practical ways. I love my job; I delight in getting to do this. In the best of cases, my counseling work is done inside the church alongside faithful pastors. I feel for pastors&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2025\/03\/07\/a-word-to-pastors-never-underestimate-the-power-of-a-phone-call\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pastor\u2019s plate is full indeed, and it can be hard to balance watchfulness over the flock with the rest of their responsibilities. Yet, even with this in mind, I can\u2019t help but admonish the shepherds: \u201cPastors, never underestimate the power of a quick phone call.\u201d Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[145,304,708,3468],"class_list":["post-118222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-biblical-counseling","tag-pastors","tag-people-who-offer-care","tag-shepherding","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-1.webp?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118225,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118222\/revisions\/118225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}