{"id":1424,"date":"2013-06-21T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2013-06-20T22:59:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T03:59:21","slug":"big-kahuna-or-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=1424","title":{"rendered":"BIG KAHUNA OR PASTOR?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"irc_mimg\"><a id=\"irc_mil\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;docid=rbnBQgqtRVkiDM&amp;tbnid=t2IvEUYCp4N48M:&amp;ved=0CAUQjRw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.movieguide.org%2Freviews%2Fthe-big-kahuna.html&amp;ei=NZnDUaihKouE9gTxuYE4&amp;bvm=bv.48175248,d.eWU&amp;psig=AFQjCNFn8kd6EKBoiNIokMk-MTvPibFoVQ&amp;ust=1371859626289071\" data-ved=\"0CAUQjRw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movieguide.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/big_kahuna_ver1.jpg\" width=\"369\" height=\"553\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>I have posed the following concern to several pastors and New Testament scholars: If you serve as a pastor, it is taken for granted by the apostle Paul that you are also an elder.\u00a0 Ironically, most &#8220;Bible&#8221; churches have only one or perhaps a few of their pastors on the elder board.\u00a0 I have asked why this is and the common refrain is that people are worried about all the pastors forming some kind of <i>voting bloc<\/i>.\u00a0 What kind of message does this send about the trustworthiness of the pastors?\u00a0 Not much, I&#8217;m afraid.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> Further, I have looked at many evangelical church web sites and the vast majority only list the &#8220;staff.&#8221;\u00a0 It is common to find the elders not even mentioned!\u00a0 \u00a0Prominently featured are the pastors, but where are the elders?\u00a0\u00a0 Some list the elders, but give no background while there is lots of ink spilled on the \u201csenior pastor.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We don&#8217;t need Big Kahunas, but pastors!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have posed the following concern to several pastors and New Testament scholars: If you serve as a pastor, it is taken for granted by the apostle Paul that you are also an elder.\u00a0 Ironically, most &#8220;Bible&#8221; churches have only one or perhaps a few of their pastors on the elder board.\u00a0 I have asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","category-pastor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}