{"id":33126,"date":"2021-12-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/?p=33126"},"modified":"2021-12-11T20:22:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T01:22:05","slug":"pastors-you-do-have-a-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2021\/12\/05\/pastors-you-do-have-a-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastors, You Do Have a Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-38706\" data-series-id=\"628\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 5 of 24 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/series\/pastors-hope-and-a-future\/\">Pastors: A Hope and a Future<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Pastors, in addition to all the people in your life who can support you in ministry, remember there is one very special partner who is always at work behind the scenes: God the Father. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No pastor is a solo pastor, or is the only lead, associate, young adults, youth, childrens, community or any other kind of pastor at your church. <em>Every<\/em> pastor has God the Father as a co-pastor in their role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This post from December 1, 2020 explains how, as you do your pastoral work, God the Father is also at work (usually in a way not known to you) creating the circumstances for you to fulfill your call with great fruitfulness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be encouraged!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-cccc-news-amp-blogs wp-block-embed-cccc-news-amp-blogs\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"gnXOVHXTL3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2020\/12\/01\/hope-for-the-church-christmas-god-the-father\/\">Hope for the Church: Christmas &#038; God the Father<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Hope for the Church: Christmas &#038; God the Father&#8221; &#8212; CCCC Blogs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2020\/12\/01\/hope-for-the-church-christmas-god-the-father\/embed\/#?secret=phJlJB6OEk#?secret=gnXOVHXTL3\" data-secret=\"gnXOVHXTL3\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-38706 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"628\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 5 of 24 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/series\/pastors-hope-and-a-future\/\">Pastors: A Hope and a Future<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Every pastor has a very special partner in ministry: God the Father who is at work to support you in ways you may not even know. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2021\/12\/05\/pastors-you-do-have-a-partner\/\" class=\"linkbutton\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ts_fic_featured_image_caption":"<span>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@garethharper?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText\">Gareth Harper<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/span>","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[624,623,89],"tags":[444,630,578],"series":[628],"class_list":["post-33126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-great-leadership-healthy","category-healthy","category-leadership-personal","tag-encouragement","tag-pastors","tag-spiritual-leadership","series-pastors-hope-and-a-future"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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