{"id":312,"date":"2008-03-07T09:22:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T16:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/2008\/03\/07\/devotional-thoughts-part-1\/"},"modified":"2008-03-07T09:22:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T16:22:11","slug":"devotional-thoughts-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Devotional Thoughts, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following comes from Section 3 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cph.org\/cphstore\/product.asp?category=&amp;part%5Fno=223079&amp;find%5Fcategory=&amp;find%5Fdescription=&amp;find%5Fpart%5Fdesc=catechism\" target=\"_blank\">Luther&#8217;s Small Catechism<\/a>: Table of Duties<\/p>\n<h2>To Bishops, Pastors, and Preachers<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.&nbsp; He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect.&nbsp; &#8212; <strong>1 Tim. 3:2-4<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil.&nbsp; &#8212; <strong>1 Tim. 3:6<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.&nbsp; &#8212; <strong>Titus 1:9<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following comes from Section 3 of Luther&#8217;s Small Catechism: Table of Duties To Bishops, Pastors, and Preachers The overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.&nbsp; He must manage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239693,7140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catechism","category-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}