{"id":44533,"date":"2014-06-10T21:02:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T21:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_rick_warren_to_pastors_there_is_no_testimony_without_a_test\/"},"modified":"2014-06-10T21:02:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T21:02:04","slug":"rns_rick_warren_to_pastors_there_is_no_testimony_without_a_test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44533","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Rick Warren to pastors: \u201d\u02dcThere is no testimony without a test\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Southern California, urged his fellow Southern Baptist pastors to draw close to others when they are suffering. He said a small group of men were on the scene within half an hour to comfort him when Matthew died. They were the same people he met with in their times of crises.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more intense the pain, the fewer words you should use,\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cYou need to show up and shut up.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>As Warren closed his sermon, he knelt before the crowd and invited pastors to come forward for prayer if they were suffering with someone who is mentally ill or if they were facing other problems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2014\/06\/09\/rick-warren-pastors-testimony-without-test\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Southern California, urged his fellow Southern Baptist pastors to draw close to others when they are suffering. He said a small group of men were on the scene within half an hour to comfort<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44533\">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":[48,39,42,422,101,419,98,435,154,184,129,108,604,603,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-baptists","category-children","category-evangelicals","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-stress","category-suicide","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44533","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=44533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}