{"id":7295,"date":"2008-07-18T23:30:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T23:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/william_witt_questions_search_committees_should_consider_asking_rector_cand\/"},"modified":"2008-07-18T23:30:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T23:30:47","slug":"william_witt_questions_search_committees_should_consider_asking_rector_cand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7295","title":{"rendered":"William Witt: Questions Search Committees Should Consider asking Rector Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Who is Jesus? What does it mean to say &#8220;Jesus saves&#8221;? How do you interpret John 14:6?<\/p>\n<p>2. Why is it important to believe in the doctrine of the Trinity? Why is it important that Jesus rose from the dead? If the bones of Jesus were found in a grave in Palestine, would that make any difference to Christian faith?<\/p>\n<p>3. What is the central message of the gospel?<\/p>\n<p>4. What is justification? Sanctification? How are they related?<\/p>\n<p>5. What does God contribute to salvation, and what do we contribute? How are they related?<\/p>\n<p>6. How do you understand divine sovereignty and providence? Can anything happen outside God&#8217;s will? Can human beings thwart God&#8217;s will?<\/p>\n<p>7. Why do Christians pray if God already knows everything that will happen and exercises divine providence over the world?<\/p>\n<p>8. For whom did Jesus die? If Jesus died for everyone, why isn&#8217;t everyone saved? Why do you think some people believe in Christ, and some don&#8217;t?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.willgwitt.org\/blog\/index.cfm\/2008\/7\/14\/Questions-to-Make-Pastors-Squirm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Who is Jesus? What does it mean to say &#8220;Jesus saves&#8221;? How do you interpret John 14:6? 2. Why is it important to believe in the doctrine of the Trinity? Why is it important that Jesus rose from the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7295\">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":[48,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295","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=7295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}