{"id":33161,"date":"2021-12-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/?p=33161"},"modified":"2021-12-11T15:16:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T20:16:47","slug":"the-main-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2021\/12\/the-main-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Main Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-38706\" data-series-id=\"628\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 11 of 24 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/series\/pastors-hope-and-a-future\/\">Pastors: A Hope and a Future<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the church is in conflict, it is because people in the congregation have been distracted from the main thing: Jesus Christ and his mission for the church. They may have entrenched themselves in a specific means to an end, a personal preference, or they may even have imported secular matters into the life of the church. If there is conflict, at least portions of the congregation are not accepting pastoral or board leadership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It falls to the role of the pastor to bring the congregation back to the main thing: Jesus Christ and his mission for the church. In this post from January 6, 2021, I suggest some ways you can restore peace to your church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-cccc-news-amp-blogs wp-block-embed-cccc-news-amp-blogs\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"KH7Tr33fAJ\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2021\/01\/06\/making-peace-in-your-church\/\">Making Peace in Your Church<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Making Peace in Your Church&#8221; &#8212; CCCC Blogs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2021\/01\/06\/making-peace-in-your-church\/embed\/#?secret=PKSOQPo6yi#?secret=KH7Tr33fAJ\" data-secret=\"KH7Tr33fAJ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-38706 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"628\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 11 of 24 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/series\/pastors-hope-and-a-future\/\">Pastors: A Hope and a Future<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Pastors can make peace in their churches by focusing the church&#8217;s attention on the main thing: Jesus Christ and his mission for the church. <a href=\"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2021\/12\/the-main-thing\/\" class=\"linkbutton\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ts_fic_featured_image_caption":"<span>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@octoberroses?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText\">Aubrey Odom<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/span>","footnotes":""},"categories":[557,553,221],"tags":[11,131,602,630],"series":[628],"class_list":["post-33161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adaptive","category-effective","category-leadership-organizational","tag-church","tag-conflict-resolution-2","tag-mission-first-mindset","tag-pastors","series-pastors-hope-and-a-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33161"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=33161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}