{"id":7880,"date":"2022-02-03T15:36:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T23:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/?p=7880"},"modified":"2022-02-03T15:36:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T23:36:30","slug":"thoughtful-thursday-church-leadership-is-holy-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/2022\/02\/03\/thoughtful-thursday-church-leadership-is-holy-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursday: Church Leadership is Holy Work!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Church Leadership is Holy Work!<\/h1>\n

Sunday\u2019s Verses: 1 Timothy 3:1-13<\/a><\/p>\n

The verses above describe traits that are required in church leaders (all leaders, not just pastors). Because the leaders in a church will determine the direction and dedication of its members, it is a responsibility not to be taken lightly and yet not to be avoided either.<\/p>\n

In a church our size, most of us have been in a position of leadership in some form. I wonder if we realize how important those roles really are. We are the face of the church! Does our face reflect the traits in 1 Timothy 3:1-13?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Church Leadership is Holy Work! Sunday\u2019s Verses: 1 Timothy 3:1-13 The verses above describe traits that are required in church leaders (all leaders, not just pastors). Because the leaders in a church will determine the direction and dedication of its members, it is a responsibility not to be taken lightly and yet not to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,113,294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-news","category-newsletters","category-thoughtful-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7881,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions\/7881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}