{"id":54548,"date":"2016-05-30T02:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T02:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tim_suttle_on_eugene_peterson-on_the_importance_of_disappointing_your_cong\/"},"modified":"2016-05-30T02:00:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T02:00:26","slug":"tim_suttle_on_eugene_peterson-on_the_importance_of_disappointing_your_cong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54548","title":{"rendered":"Tim Suttle on Eugene Peterson&#8211;On The Importance Of Disappointing Your Congregation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Question: How are you doing? Answer: busy\u201d\u00a6 how many times have you heard that? How many times have you said that?<br \/>\nAs a pastor, Eugene Peterson is the voice in the back of my head. When I experience challenges in my vocation, my sense of direction, or conflict in my understanding of my role as a pastor, I usually hunt around for what Peterson would say to my situation. He nearly always has the wisdom I\u2019m looking for, and he never lets me off the hook.<br \/>\nPeterson\u2019s vision of the Unbusy pastor has become the paradigm that I\u2019m chasing. Busyness kills the pastoral vocation&#8230;.Peterson\u2019s probing question is essentially this: If I was not busy making my mark in the world and not busy doing what everyone expects me to do, what would I actually do as a pastor?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2016\/05\/on-the-importance-of-disappointing-your-congregation.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: How are you doing? Answer: busy\u201d\u00a6 how many times have you heard that? How many times have you said that? As a pastor, Eugene Peterson is the voice in the back of my head. When I experience challenges in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54548\">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":[48,39,40,175,149,168,104,597,435,184,177,129,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54548","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=54548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}