{"id":5073,"date":"2019-09-30T03:47:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/how-churches-view-their-pastor\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:47:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:08","slug":"how-churches-view-their-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/how-churches-view-their-pastor\/","title":{"rendered":"How Churches View Their Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201dGod takes the very thing we fear and turns it to ringing triumph.\u201d \u2014 David Roper<\/p>\n<p>How pastors view themselves vs. how their parishioners view them:<\/p>\n<p>                                Pastors  \/  Congregants<br \/>\n     Inspiring                    42%           64%<br \/>\n     Self-confident               38%           57%<br \/>\n     Helpful                      49%           66%<br \/>\n     Effective time managers      25%           45%<br \/>\n     Adaptable                    72%           48%<br \/>\n     Analytical                   54%           29%<br \/>\n     Practical                    60%           48%<br \/>\n     Flexible                     65%           46%<br \/>\n     Team player                  71%           53%<\/p>\n<p>   &#8212; Leadership (Fall 2003)<\/p>\n<p>Two-thirds of pastors responding to a national survey said that their congregation had been in conflict during the past two years.  More than 25% of pastors who left a church said they did so because of conflict with their denomination.<\/p>\n<p> -\u2014 Current Thoughts &#038; Trends (Dec 16, 2003)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201dGod takes the very thing we fear and turns it to ringing triumph.\u201d \u2014 David Roper How pastors view themselves vs. how their parishioners view them: Pastors \/ Congregants Inspiring 42% 64% Self-confident 38% 57% Helpful 49% 66% Effective time managers 25% 45% Adaptable 72% 48% Analytical 54% 29% Practical 60% 48% Flexible 65% 46% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2619,3,404,70,621,857],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}