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Advent: Geeves’ Top 10 for Visionaries

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Guest blogger, The Revd Bruce Geeves of Nostalgia Now fame, shares his “Top Ten for Visionaries”:

1. take an interest in people and their  vision

2. it must become a shared vision

3. it must be accepted and valued by the church as that gift is used to build up the church

4. we must be accountable

5. we must be encouraged

6. we must take risks for Jesus

7. we must be allowed to fail (but learn)

8. we must work as a team not pigeon hole each other but let each other grow and not be a lone ranger out in the desert

9. we must be praying for evangelistic opportunities

10. acknowledge our complete dependence on God

I am grateful to Bruce for his ‘Top 10’.

As we begin the Season of Advent, What is your Top 10 for this new year of learning of and walking with Jesus?

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One response to “Advent: Geeves’ Top 10 for Visionaries”

  1. Paul Cavanough Avatar
    Paul Cavanough

    I have been thinking about biblical themes or even verses (oh no not a proof text) to guide me in 2012. I’ve made my decision,

    Peter and John recorded in Acts 4:20 “For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard”

    Jeremiah 20:9 “But if I say, “I will not mention him or speak any more in his name,” his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.”

    Amos 3:8 “The lion has roared–who will not fear? The Sovereign LORD has spoken–who can but prophesy?”

    1Corintiians 9:16 “Yet when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, for I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!”

    1John 1:1 “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched–this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.”

    1John 1:3 “We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.”

    Bring on a year of speaking about the coming of the Kingdom of God!

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