{"id":33167,"date":"2021-12-13T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/?p=33167"},"modified":"2021-12-14T08:34:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T13:34:37","slug":"treasure-your-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2021\/12\/13\/treasure-your-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasure Your Call"},"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 13 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>Once God has called you into pastoral ministry, you don&#8217;t want to do anything to disqualify yourself from continuing to carry out your call. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a number of reasons why people lose their call and not all of them are outright sins. 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