{"id":27659,"date":"2011-08-05T14:59:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T14:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rachel_hackenberg-the_myth_about_pastors\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:59:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T14:59:18","slug":"rachel_hackenberg-the_myth_about_pastors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27659","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Hackenberg&#8211;The myth about pastors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The myth about pastors, simply stated, is that we are helpers; that ours is a helping profession, counted alongside doctors and nurses and emergency responders and teachers and social workers.<\/p>\n<p>Over and over again in my ministry, however, I am reminded that pastors are not helpers. We are not fixers or healers or solvers. We do not, cannot, provide help. Which may sound shocking, because people often turn to pastors for help &#8230; and pastors, in turn, like to think that they provide concrete help to others. But no, it is all a myth.<\/p>\n<p>A story might add some explanation to my myth-busting&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faithandwater.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/myth-about-pastors.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The myth about pastors, simply stated, is that we are helpers; that ours is a helping profession, counted alongside doctors and nurses and emergency responders and teachers and social workers. Over and over again in my ministry, however, I am<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27659\">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":[48,42,435,154,184,177,34,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology","category-united-church-of-christ"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27659","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=27659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}