{"id":100097,"date":"2019-03-09T11:39:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T11:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/tips-for-success-in-an-online-course\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T20:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:39:48","slug":"tips-for-success-in-an-online-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/?p=100097","title":{"rendered":"How Not to Wear Too Many Hats"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>How Not to Wear Too Many Hats<\/h2>\n<h6>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The average pastor of a smaller church (without a staff) can come to the point of burnout if he spends too much of his time doing what he is not <em>called<\/em> and <em>gifted<\/em> to do.\u00a0 He must realize that he is neither gifted nor qualified\u2014on purpose\u2014to function in all of the <em>callings<\/em> of the fivefold ministry, even when it is obvious that all the callings are desperately needed.\u00a0 I spent too many years wasting too much time trying to do things <em>that I was not good at!<\/em>\u00a0 For example, I do not have the gifting of a prophet or an evangelist or a youth minister.\u00a0 I am a teacher.\u00a0 I knew instinctively by the Holy Spirit that these other office ministries were needed in my local church, but I had to learn the hard way that I could not effectively do them.\u00a0 I needed those who were called to do those things.<\/h6>\n<h6>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In most small churches, there is no provision for obtaining capable staff members who flow in the needed fivefold calling.\u00a0 You must find each of them and have these come alongside you to help you bring your local church to its rightful place in the Lord.<\/h6>\n<h6>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Within our fellowship of churches (Network of Related Pastors, NRP), we have a reservoir of the fivefold ministry giftings that move among our churches to help them achieve a full and needed balance of ministry.\u00a0 The blessing of working together affords us the expertise that God intends for every local congregation, while releasing the <em>pastor<\/em> to do what he is supposed to do best.<\/h6>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrpastors.com\/\">nrpastors.com<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Not to Wear Too Many Hats \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The average pastor of a smaller church (without a staff) can come to the point of burnout if he spends too much of his time doing what he is not called and gifted to do.\u00a0 He must realize that he is neither gifted nor qualified\u2014on purpose\u2014to function [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[20,21,22],"class_list":["post-100097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graduation","tag-college","tag-diploma","tag-student"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100464,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100097\/revisions\/100464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}