{"id":74566,"date":"2018-10-24T07:28:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T11:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74566"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:33:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T12:33:30","slug":"ministry-lessons-from-the-life-of-eugene-peterson-8-church-leaders-share-what-they-learned-through-his-books-letters-and-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74566","title":{"rendered":"(CT Pastors) Ministry Lessons from the Life of Eugene Peterson 8 church leaders share what they learned through his books, letters, and friendship."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Choose your words carefully.<\/p>\n<p>Relevance is irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>Pastoral ministry is serious, consequential work.<\/p>\n<p>There is no ministry in the abstract.<\/p>\n<p>Every step is integral to your journey.<\/p>\n<p>Christ is all we have to offer.<\/p>\n<p>Reject grandiosity.<\/p>\n<p>Sabbath is a gift.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/2018\/october-web-exclusives\/ministry-lessons-from-life-of-eugene-peterson.html\">Read them all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We loved Eugene Peterson. Here&#39;s what we remember most about this pastor&#39;s legacy <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ATyV5dk3ej\">https:\/\/t.co\/ATyV5dk3ej<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTmagazine\/status\/1055051288868732928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choose your words carefully. Relevance is irrelevant. Pastoral ministry is serious, consequential work. There is no ministry in the abstract. Every step is integral to your journey. Christ is all we have to offer. Reject grandiosity. Sabbath is a gift.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74566\">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":[175,435,184,177,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74566","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=74566"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74576,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74566\/revisions\/74576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}