{"id":24507,"date":"2011-02-11T22:22:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T22:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_rob_moll_doing_gods_workat_the_office\/"},"modified":"2011-02-11T22:22:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T22:22:08","slug":"wsj_rob_moll_doing_gods_workat_the_office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24507","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Rob Moll: Doing God&#39;s Work\u201d\u201dAt the Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian business professionals have long had an uneasy relationship with the church. Not only does the church tend to privilege church and missionary service over business, but it often condemns business practices and implies the guilt of any participants. Yet there are signs that this dynamic is changing\u201d\u201dnot least because churches rely on the donations of business professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Many pastors now visit their congregants at work to better understand their professional lives. Justin Buzzard, pastor of the Garden City Church in San Jose, Calif., wrote last year about ministering to professionals in his congregation. &#8220;It shows them that I care about their callings, how they spend 50-plus hours of their week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704858404576134200119044600.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian business professionals have long had an uneasy relationship with the church. Not only does the church tend to privilege church and missionary service over business, but it often condemns business practices and implies the guilt of any participants. Yet<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24507\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,175,589,149,597,177,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}