{"id":33173,"date":"2021-12-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/?p=33173"},"modified":"2021-12-16T08:10:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T13:10:56","slug":"this-is-what-god-has-given-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2021\/12\/this-is-what-god-has-given-you\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is What God Has Given You"},"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 17 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\">Having a heart of gratitude for everything God has done for you goes a long way towards keeping you humble and useful in your pastoral role as you serve God and your congregation. A heart of gratitude also preserves your attractiveness as a leader to the congregation you lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This post from July 17, 2017 will help you develop a grateful heart.<\/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=\"vVgrnF1vgr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2017\/07\/17\/gratitude-the-key-to-longevity-in-christian-leadership\/\">Gratitude: The Key to Longevity in Christian Leadership<\/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;Gratitude: The Key to Longevity in Christian Leadership&#8221; &#8212; CCCC Blogs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2017\/07\/17\/gratitude-the-key-to-longevity-in-christian-leadership\/embed\/#?secret=5O5gYhKhAN#?secret=vVgrnF1vgr\" data-secret=\"vVgrnF1vgr\" 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 17 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>Pastors do well when they are  grateful for what God has given them in terms of equipping and leading them in their pastoral role. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2021\/12\/this-is-what-god-has-given-you\/\" class=\"linkbutton\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ts_fic_featured_image_caption":"Used with permission.","footnotes":""},"categories":[624,623,89],"tags":[105,632,630],"series":[628],"class_list":["post-33173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-great-leadership-healthy","category-healthy","category-leadership-personal","tag-calling","tag-gratitude","tag-pastors","series-pastors-hope-and-a-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33173"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=33173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}