{"id":528,"date":"2014-01-29T22:20:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/?p=528"},"modified":"2014-01-29T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T22:20:07","slug":"pastoral-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"Pastoral Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As a pastor, therefore, my real authority &#8212; my true authenticity, whether in the pulpit, or the office, or in the confessional, or at the end of a piano at a cocktail party &#8212; lies in my fidelity to the Gospel, not in my assorted competences (real or imagined) in other fields.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(From Robert Farrar Capon, in\u00a0<em>The Mystery of Christ<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>I really like this quote&#8230; even though I&#8217;ve never been at the end of a piano at a cocktail party&#8230; as it points to the continuing center of our only hope and our only wisdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a pastor, therefore, my real authority &#8212; my true authenticity, whether in the pulpit, or the office, or in the confessional, or at the end of a piano at a cocktail party &#8212; lies in my fidelity to the Gospel, not in my assorted competences (real or imagined) in other fields. (From Robert Farrar &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/?p=528\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pastoral Authority<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-christ","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}