{"id":289,"date":"2008-01-31T22:26:04","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T05:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/?p=289"},"modified":"2008-01-31T22:26:04","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T05:26:04","slug":"what-makes-a-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"What makes a pastor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good friend and brother in the ministry wrote a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmatthewsnj.org\/blog\/?p=879\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> about &#8220;undressing&#8221; in a 7-11 convenience store.\u00a0 When I say &#8220;undress,&#8221; I meant he removed his plastic tab collar of his clerical shirt.\u00a0 A man there was practically offended at what he had done because my friend was a &#8220;holy man of God.&#8221;\u00a0 In short, <i>&#8220;his priest would never lower himself by taking off his\u00a0Godly clothes while in public.&#8221;\u00a0<\/i> Here are some questions for your pondering.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What makes a pastor?\u00a0 Is it the &#8220;Godly clothes&#8221; which anyone can buy online or is it the call by the Holy Spirit?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>What makes me a &#8220;holy man of God?&#8221;\u00a0 Is it because I&#8217;m a pastor that I can call myself a &#8220;holy man of God?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Is a pastor the only &#8220;holy man of God?&#8221;\u00a0 Does that mean that laity are not &#8220;holy people of God?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect to get any answers, but that&#8217;s just my pondering right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good friend and brother in the ministry wrote a recent post about &#8220;undressing&#8221; in a 7-11 convenience store.\u00a0 When I say &#8220;undress,&#8221; I meant he removed his plastic tab collar of his clerical shirt.\u00a0 A man there was practically offended at what he had done because my friend was a &#8220;holy man of God.&#8221;\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186537,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clergy","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}