{"id":9416,"date":"2011-11-27T05:59:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T18:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=9416"},"modified":"2011-11-26T22:37:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T11:37:23","slug":"advent-geeves-top-10-for-visionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/11\/27\/advent-geeves-top-10-for-visionaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent: Geeves&#8217; Top 10 for Visionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogger, The Revd Bruce Geeves of <em>Nostalgia Now<\/em> fame, shares\u00a0his &#8220;Top Ten for Visionaries&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>1. take an interest in people and their\u00a0 vision<\/p>\n<p>2. it must become a shared vision<\/p>\n<p>3. it must be accepted and valued by the church as that gift is used to build up the church<\/p>\n<p>4. we must be accountable<\/p>\n<p>5. we must be encouraged<\/p>\n<p>6. we must take risks for Jesus<\/p>\n<p>7. we must be allowed to fail (but learn)<\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p>9. we must be praying for evangelistic opportunities<\/p>\n<p>10. acknowledge our complete dependence on God<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful to\u00a0Bruce for his &#8216;Top 10&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>As we begin the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advent\">Season of Advent<\/a>, What is your Top 10 for this new year of learning of and walking with Jesus?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogger, The Revd Bruce Geeves of Nostalgia Now fame, shares\u00a0his &#8220;Top Ten for Visionaries&#8221;: 1. take an interest in people and their\u00a0 vision 2. it must become a shared vision 3. it must be accepted and valued by the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/11\/27\/advent-geeves-top-10-for-visionaries\/\">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\/9416"}],"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=9416"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9472,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9416\/revisions\/9472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}