{"id":1511,"date":"2023-11-05T11:46:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T11:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2023-11-08T21:14:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T21:14:54","slug":"is-your-elder-a-good-shepherd-or-a-hired-hand-how-to-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=1511","title":{"rendered":"Is your elder a good shepherd or a hired hand? How to tell."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1387\" src=\"http:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/mapleleavescrop505025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/mapleleavescrop505025.jpg 434w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/mapleleavescrop505025-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"en-ESV-26481\" class=\"text John-10-11\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">\u00a0<\/sup><strong>I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd\u00a0lays down his life for the sheep.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-26482\" class=\"text John-10-12\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">12\u00a0<\/sup>He who is\u00a0a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and\u00a0leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and\u00a0scatters them.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><span id=\"en-ESV-26483\" class=\"text John-10-13\"><span class=\"woj\"><strong><sup class=\"versenum\">13\u00a0<\/sup>He flees because\u00a0he is a hired hand and\u00a0cares nothing for the sheep<\/strong>.\u00a0 John 10: 11-13<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nov. 5, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0I am the good shepherd&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[74,79,78,77,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-1511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thought-for-the-day","7":"tag-scattering-sheep","8":"tag-shepherding","9":"tag-silent-elders","10":"tag-unfaithful-elders","11":"tag-wolves"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1549,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions\/1549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}