{"id":93995,"date":"2020-06-16T07:30:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T11:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93995"},"modified":"2020-06-15T18:48:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T22:48:03","slug":"ct-pastors-pastor-and-author-jared-c-wilson-shares-what-americas-first-ordained-african-american-taught-him-about-facing-hardship-in-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93995","title":{"rendered":"(CT Pastors) Pastor and author Jared C. Wilson shares what America\u2019s first ordained African American taught him about facing hardship in ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text\"><strong>I have to admit I didn\u2019t know who Haynes was until I read an article about him recently. How did you encounter him?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">When I was pastoring in Vermont, I did some research into the history of the area, and I stumbled across him. Haynes wasn\u2019t from Vermont, but he spent 30 years pastoring a church in West Rutland. I was about five miles down the road from where he preached. So I was just looking into the church history of Vermont, and he\u2019s a towering figure in that state. But when I started reading up on him, I thought he should be better known in American church history. He\u2019s the first African American ordained by a religious body in America and the first black pastor of a mostly white congregation. That\u2019s rare today. It was unheard of then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\"><strong>You wrote, \u201cI had a friend who once said \u2018fall in love with a dead guy.\u2019 Haynes is my guy.\u201d Why do you feel this special affinity for Haynes?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">One reason is his faithful pastorate. He was a devotee of the theology of Jonathan Edwards, so he was in that American Puritan tradition. He was heavily influenced by the revivals; he cites Edwards and George Whitefield in his final sermon to the congregation in West Rutland. So he has that theology, and he was just a faithful shepherd. The first substantive biography of him, by Timothy Mather Cooley, is full of wonderful anecdotes, vignettes of things Haynes did and said. He was so funny; he had the wit of a Spurgeon. I loved that he was a political-minded guy but kept that out of his pulpit preaching. His theology was very rich.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/2020\/spring\/pastoring-people-who-cause-you-pain.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit I didn\u2019t know who Haynes was until I read an article about him recently. How did you encounter him? When I was pastoring in Vermont, I did some research into the history of the area, and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93995\">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":[209,186,184,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-church-history","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93995","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=93995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93999,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93995\/revisions\/93999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}