{"id":4069,"date":"2007-09-05T10:13:30","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T14:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4069"},"modified":"2007-09-05T10:14:28","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T14:14:28","slug":"the-number-one-qualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2007\/09\/the-number-one-qualification\/","title":{"rendered":"The Number One Qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are all sorts of characteristics <a href=\"http:\/\/scriptures.lds.org\/1_tim\/3\/2-6#2\">one wants <\/a>in a <a href=\"http:\/\/scriptures.lds.org\/titus\/1\/7,9#7\">Bishop<\/a>.  Ideally he&#8217;d be kind, honest, obedient, a good people person, in-tune spiritually, good at administration and delegation, care deeply about the youth, doctrinally aware, and so on.  But all of these pale in comparison to what I consider to be by far the leading qualification for Bishop.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIt isn&#8217;t me.  Pretty much anything else is gravy.  To do the job well takes an incredible dedication and effort.  To do it badly would make one miserable.  So I&#8217;m deeply grateful to anybody who is willing to take that burden on for whatever ward I&#8217;m in.<\/p>\n<p>FYI, President Hinckley <a href=\"http:\/\/lds.org\/portal\/site\/LDSOrg\/menuitem.b12f9d18fae655bb69095bd3e44916a0\/?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&#038;locale=0&#038;sourceId=26a174536cf0c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&#038;hideNav=1\">gave a great talk<\/a> on Bishops a while back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are all sorts of characteristics one wants in a Bishop. Ideally he&#8217;d be kind, honest, obedient, a good people person, in-tune spiritually, good at administration and delegation, care deeply about the youth, doctrinally aware, and so on. But all of these pale in comparison to what I consider to be by far the leading qualification for Bishop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}