{"id":4088,"date":"2026-10-25T17:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T22:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2026-10-25T17:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T22:56:10","slug":"appreciating-your-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2026\/10\/appreciating-your-pastor\/","title":{"rendered":"Appreciating Your Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been Pastor Appreciation Month and if I am counting correctly, I will meet my 19<sup>th<\/sup> Pastor for mid-morning coffee on Tuesday of this week.\u00a0 I envy those who have had the same pastor for many years.\u00a0 My Pastors were all short-term, due to my own frequent relocations, which began early.\u00a0 I attended eight schools before I enrolled in college. I never had access to a portal, but I did end up with four universities on my transcript. My father was my pastor in three churches. I\u2019ve been pastor of two churches, interim pastor of thirty.\u00a0 So, before we end this appreciation month, consider these quotes and appreciate your pastor.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A good pastor is one who is intimately aware of how broken the church is, and yet is relentlessly optimistic about her future, Micah Fries<\/li>\n<li>A good pastor is not always the best preacher. A lot of people are listening for a sound and not looking for a shepherd. Preaching is from the mouth. Pastoring is from the heart. Dennis Hall<\/li>\n<li>A pastor is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. John C. Maxwell<\/li>\n<li>Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth. John Wesley<\/li>\n<li>Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if it is willing to pay the price, and that price is not a big salary, but great praying. A. Torrey<\/li>\n<li>When a pastor is led by what people demand of them and not what God demands of them a shepherd turns into a wolf. John M Sheehan<\/li>\n<li>You can be a prophet, a teacher, a pastor\u2026 but without a prayer life, you will eventually dry up. Nicholas Duncan Williams<\/li>\n<li>He Himself gave some to be . . .pastors and teachers, for the equipping pf the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. Ephesians 4:11-12.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dr. Dan R. Crawford, Senior Professor, Chair of Prayer Emeritus; Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas. Former Head of Task Force for the Teaching of Prayer in Theological Education for America\u2019s National Prayer Committee. Former Consultant for the West Coast Baptist Association, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.\u00a0 Administrative Consultant for the Valley Baptist Missions Education Center, Texas. President of Disciple All Nations, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been Pastor Appreciation Month and if I am counting correctly, I will meet my 19th Pastor for mid-morning coffee on Tuesday of this week.\u00a0 I envy those who have had the same pastor for many years.\u00a0 My Pastors were all short-term, due to my own frequent relocations, which began early.\u00a0 I attended eight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4089,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions\/4089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}