{"id":10589,"date":"2016-08-17T00:53:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/teacherspastoral-ministry-need-for-spiritual-reality\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T00:53:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:53:51","slug":"teacherspastoral-ministry-need-for-spiritual-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/teacherspastoral-ministry-need-for-spiritual-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"TEACHERS;\nPASTORAL MINISTRY: NEED FOR SPIRITUAL REALITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Toward anything like thorough scholarship I make no claim. I am not an authority on any man\u2019s teaching; I have never tried to be. I take my help where I find it and set my heart to graze where the pastures are greenest. Only one stipulation do I make: my teacher must know God, as Carlyle said, \u201cotherwise than by hearsay,\u201d and Christ must be all in all to him. If a man have only correct doctrine to offer me I am sure to slip out at the first intermission to seek the company of someone who has seen for himself how lovely is the face of Him who is the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valleys. Such a man can help me, and no one else can.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Song of Solomon 2:1; John 12:21; Hebrews 12:1\u20132<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>The Pursuit of Man,<\/i> xiv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toward anything like thorough scholarship I make no claim. I am not an authority on any man\u2019s teaching; I have never tried to be. I take my help where I find it and set my heart to graze where the pastures are greenest. Only one stipulation do I make: my teacher must know God, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/teacherspastoral-ministry-need-for-spiritual-reality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TEACHERS;<br \/>\nPASTORAL MINISTRY: NEED FOR SPIRITUAL REALITY&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}