{"id":4386,"date":"2010-06-21T10:29:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T23:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=4386"},"modified":"2010-06-21T10:29:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T23:29:53","slug":"five-mission-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/06\/21\/five-mission-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"Five mission principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are on a good thing, stick to it!\u00a0The mission principles of CMS are one of those &#8216;good things&#8217; to stick to.<\/p>\n<p>At the Tasmanian Anglican Synod the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.org.au\/\">Church Missionary Society (CMS)<\/a> State Director David Boyd gave me the booklet, <em><strong>The driving principles: a look at the five principles of the Church Missionary Society<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The principles came from John Venn, one of the founders of CMS.\u00a0The other CMS founders were John Newton (Author of <em>Amazing Grace<\/em>) and William Wilberforce (the driving force behind the abolition of the slave trade in England). They met in the <em>Castle and Falcon <\/em>Pub in London. The Society, known later as the Church Missionary Society, was born (1799) out of the question they were discussing at their pub meetings. The question?\u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is the best method of planting and promulgating the gospel in Botany Bay?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0The result: Five Mission Principles:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Follow God&#8217;s leading.<\/li>\n<li>Put money in second place, not first.<\/li>\n<li>Begin in a small way.<\/li>\n<li>Under God, all will depend on the type of people sent out.<\/li>\n<li>Look for success only from the Spirit of God.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What great mission principles for us to enact!<\/p>\n<p>See CMS Driving Principles and Object\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.org.au\/about\/cms-drivingprinciples\">here<\/a>\u00a0and History <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.org.au\/about\/cms-history\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Also <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/12\/03\/christian-mission-for-tasmanians\/\">Christian Mission for Tasmanians<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are on a good thing, stick to it!\u00a0The mission principles of CMS are one of those &#8216;good things&#8217; to stick to. At the Tasmanian Anglican Synod the Church Missionary Society (CMS) State Director David Boyd gave me the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/06\/21\/five-mission-principles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4386"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4439,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions\/4439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}