{"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\/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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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; 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