{"id":53813,"date":"2022-09-30T10:24:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=53813"},"modified":"2022-11-02T01:19:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T06:19:51","slug":"sabbaticals-for-the-shepherds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=53813","title":{"rendered":"Sabbaticals for the Shepherds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u200b<span aria-label=\"Rich text content control paragraph\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201cRest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.\u202f.\u202f.\u202f. It is wisdom to take occasional furlough.\u201d<span data-contrast=\"none\"> \u2013 Charles Spurgeon, <span aria-label=\"Rich text content control\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201c<span aria-label=\"Rich text content control\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Minister\u2019s Fainting Fits<span aria-label=\"Rich text content control\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">All work is hard, but faithful pastoral ministry <span aria-label=\"Rich text content control\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">takes a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/jared-c-wilson\/pastor-isnt-just-job\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">unique toll<\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> on the laborer<span data-contrast=\"none\">. Pastors have the exhausting honor of carrying the <span data-contrast=\"none\">daily <span data-contrast=\"none\">pressure <span data-contrast=\"none\">of <span data-contrast=\"none\">anxiety for <span data-contrast=\"none\">the church <span data-contrast=\"none\">(2\u202fCor.\u202f11:28). Office hours are not sufficient for the unceasing strain of broken marriages, straying sinners, suffering saints, and spiritual warfare.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">This is why it\u2019s wise for <span aria-label=\"Rich text content control\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">churches<span data-contrast=\"none\"> to require rest for their pastors. I\u2019m not talking about a day off (which pastors should guard) or a vacation (which pastors should take) but a required season of rest<span data-contrast=\"none\"> known as a sabbatical.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p aria-level=\"3\"><span aria-label=\"Rich text content control paragraph\"><span aria-label=\"Rich text content control\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">PURPOSE<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Churches are served best by invigorated shepherds. When a pastor is rested and refreshed in Christ, his oversight will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastors should take regular sabbaticals and plan them well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"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-53813","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\/53813","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\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53815,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53813\/revisions\/53815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}