{"id":48823,"date":"2015-03-13T02:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T02:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/thursday_afternoon_food_for_thought-howard_snyder_on_john_stotts_celibacy\/"},"modified":"2015-03-13T02:00:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T02:00:16","slug":"thursday_afternoon_food_for_thought-howard_snyder_on_john_stotts_celibacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48823","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Afternoon food for Thought&#8211;Howard Snyder on John Stott\u2019s Celibacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toward the end of his life Stott spoke of his \u201cthree renunciations.\u201d\u009d First, he decided against an academic career, feeling God had called him to be a pastor. Second was Stott\u2019s renunciation of marriage. Third was his renunciation of the episcopate when some wanted him to be a bishop. His pastoral calling, he felt, remained primary.<\/p>\n<p>As to marriage, Stott said this: \u201cI was expecting to marry. I went about with a weather eye, and in my twenties and early thirties was looking for a possible bride. I did have two girlfriends\u201d\u201dnot simultaneously but one after t\u2019other! But all I can say is that when the time came to decide whether to go forward in the relationship or not, I lacked the assurance that I should. That is the only way I can really explain it\u201d\u009d (pp. 271-72). This was more a circumstantial and passive renunciation than an intentional choice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/howardsnyder.seedbed.com\/2013\/04\/19\/john-stotts-celibacy\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toward the end of his life Stott spoke of his \u201cthree renunciations.\u201d\u009d First, he decided against an academic career, feeling God had called him to be a pastor. Second was Stott\u2019s renunciation of marriage. Third was his renunciation of the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48823\">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":[36,48,39,42,175,186,168,419,98,435,154,184,177,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-church-history","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-evangelicals","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48823","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=48823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}