{"id":25149,"date":"2020-10-05T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=25149"},"modified":"2020-10-05T07:35:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T12:35:15","slug":"nuggets-pastors-and-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=25149","title":{"rendered":"NUGGETS: Pastors and Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/blog\/six-reasons-your-pastor-is-about-to-quit\/\">Six Reasons Your Pastor Is About to Quit<\/a> \u2013 Pastors are burned out, beaten up, and downtrodden.\u00a0Many are about to quit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/kevin-deyoung\/its-okay-to-be-a-pastor\/\">It\u2019s Okay to Be a Pastor<\/a> \u2013 Head down, chin up, one foot in front of the other. The world is broken, but what\u2019s new about that? The Word still needs to be proclaimed, the darkness still needs the light, and the sheep still need a shepherd.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/think-twice-switching-church\/\">Stop! Think Twice Before Switching Churches in 2020<\/a> \u2013 While there are a number of valid reasons that Christians change churches, I nonetheless want to say: think twice before switching churches during COVID-19. Not all changes are bad, but we can be far too casual about this weighty decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpf_wrapper\"><a class=\"print_link\" href=\"https:\/\/counselingoneanother.com\/2020\/10\/05\/nuggets-pastors-and-churches\/print\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Print this entry<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- .wpf_wrapper --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Reasons Your Pastor Is About to Quit \u2013 Pastors are burned out, beaten up, and downtrodden.\u00a0Many are about to quit.\u00a0 It\u2019s Okay to Be a Pastor \u2013 Head down, chin up, one foot in front of the other. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"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":[5],"tags":[125,115,194],"class_list":["post-25149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-counseling-one-another-paul-tautges","tag-local-church","tag-nuggets-of-wisdom","tag-pastoral-ministry-shepherding","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25149","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25152,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25149\/revisions\/25152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}