{"id":58403,"date":"2023-01-09T08:22:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T14:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=58403"},"modified":"2023-03-02T21:22:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T03:22:43","slug":"book-review-workers-for-your-joy-by-david-mathis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=58403","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Workers for Your Joy, by David Mathis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Mathis, <em>Workers for Your Joy: The Call of Christ on Christian Leaders.<\/em> Crossway, 2022. 352 pages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We don\u2019t pay attention to sound, hard-working tires until a nail pierces the rubber and we\u2019re left stranded on the side of the road. In other words, we take good tires for granted until they become bad tires.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So it is with pastors! We take them for granted until we can\u2019t. Our eyes are drawn to stories of their failures. However, we ought to be spending much more time devoted to the topic of pastoral faithfulness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Mathis has written a book designed to curb this problem. In <em>Workers for Your Joy, <\/em>he promotes faithfulness in the lives of the men called to shepherd the flock of God. His book is for church members\u2014that they would know what to expect from their pastors\u2014and for elders themselves\u2014that they would better understand Christ\u2019s expectations for them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mathis leans into Hebrews 13:17 for the title of his book, \u201cObey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s far too easy to wait for a crisis to pay attention to your pastor. Mathis shows us a better way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"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":[322],"class_list":["post-58403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-preaching-theology","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\/58403","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\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58405,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58403\/revisions\/58405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}