{"id":14128,"date":"2017-01-28T14:15:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T20:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/accompanying-persons-in-the-middle\/"},"modified":"2017-01-28T14:22:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T20:22:47","slug":"accompanying-persons-in-the-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/accompanying-persons-in-the-middle\/","title":{"rendered":"Accompanying persons in the middle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_6105.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_6105.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2448\" height=\"2448\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14127\" srcset=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_6105.jpg 2448w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_6105-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_6105-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_6105-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_6105-500x500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2448px) 100vw, 2448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pastor is the person who specializes in accompanying persons of faith &#8220;in the middle,&#8221; facing the ugly details, the meaningless routines, the mocking wickedness, and all the time doggedly insisting that this unaccountability unlovely middle is connected to the splendid beginning and a glorious ending &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>These people, when served by such a pastor, steadily acquire confidence that they are included in God&#8217;s way and are able, therefore, to persevere meaningfully even when they cannot see the meaning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Eugene Peterson, Reversed Thunder<\/p>\n<p>If we follow the call as the priesthood of believers &#8211; is this not also the call of all believers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pastor is the person who specializes in accompanying persons of faith &#8220;in the middle,&#8221; facing the ugly details, the meaningless routines, the mocking wickedness, and all the time doggedly insisting that this unaccountability unlovely middle is connected to the splendid beginning and a glorious ending &#8230; These people, when served by such a pastor, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/accompanying-persons-in-the-middle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Accompanying persons in the middle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-3FS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14130,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14128\/revisions\/14130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}