{"id":53742,"date":"2022-09-30T10:39:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=53742"},"modified":"2022-11-02T01:03:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T06:03:10","slug":"administrators-playing-with-calculators-or-building-up-the-body-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=53742","title":{"rendered":"Administrators: Playing with Calculators or Building Up the Body of Christ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Every year I go on a retreat with administrative pastors from <span data-contrast=\"none\">like-minded<span data-contrast=\"none\"> churches. And every year<span data-contrast=\"none\">,<span data-contrast=\"none\"> Alex Duke (9Marks editor and my coworker at church) makes fun of me. &#8220;What are you guys going to do? Pull out your TI83 calculators? Look at a bunch of <span data-contrast=\"none\">spreadsheets<span data-contrast=\"none\"> together?\u201d Ha ha ha.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Jokes aside<span data-contrast=\"none\">, the average member of my church (and I\u2019d assume other churches as well) does not have a good idea of what an administrative pastor <span data-contrast=\"none\">actually does<span data-contrast=\"none\">. Vague <span data-contrast=\"none\">thoughts<span data-contrast=\"none\"> of building maintenance or paying the bills are usually what people have in mind. Sure, we often handle those things or supervise someone else who does. But being an administrative pastor is much more than that. <span data-contrast=\"none\">At <span data-contrast=\"none\">the end of the day, good administration is necessary for a healthy church.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p aria-level=\"3\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">What\u2019s Administration\u2014and Who\u2019s Good for It?<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">What is administration? Likely<span data-contrast=\"none\">,<span data-contrast=\"none\"> one of the first things we think about when we hear the word administration is government: \u201cUnder my administration\u2026\u201d or \u201cThis administration has done\u2026<span data-contrast=\"none\">.<span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201d Has the church today co-opted this word? I don\u2019t think<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good administration and good administrators are a gift from God. Don\u2019t neglect these gifts just because they seem boring or nerdy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"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":[793],"tags":[312],"class_list":["post-53742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-leadership","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\/53742","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\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53744,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53742\/revisions\/53744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}