{"id":3842,"date":"2009-04-22T14:40:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T19:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=3842"},"modified":"2009-04-22T14:40:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T19:40:48","slug":"bishop-michael-birds-vision-for-the-diocese-of-niagara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishop-michael-birds-vision-for-the-diocese-of-niagara\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Michael Bird&#039;s vision for the Diocese of Niagara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QXLnEj0Jc-g]<\/p>\n<p>Here are the five points:<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Flourishing cultures of innovation<\/li>\n<li>Outstanding leadership for ministry<\/li>\n<li>Prophetic social justice making<\/li>\n<li>Life changing worship<\/li>\n<li>Effective resource management<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>The only point that, on the surface, may have a tenuous connection to Christianity is <em>&#8220;Life changing worship&#8221;<\/em>. Closer inspection reveals that even that is all about the worshipper, not God, the object of worship.<\/p>\n<p>These five &#8220;focus points&#8221; appear to be a collection of random clich\u00e9s cobbled together from mediocre &#8220;How to run a business&#8221; seminars. It is difficult to ascribe meaning to the bishop&#8217;s apparition, but each of us may have a favourite banality upon which we would like to concentrate. Mine would be <em>&#8220;outstanding leadership for ministry&#8221;, <\/em>since it is the one component of the bishop&#8217;s chimera that is easy to fulfill: fire everyone at head office from the bishop on down &#8211; the lights could then be turned off at the Cathedral and its offices, thus fulfilling <em>&#8220;Effective resource management<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Once the flotsam is jettisoned from 252 James Street, the unjust lawsuits against ANiC would cease &#8211; completing point 3 &#8211; permitting ANiC to concentrate on innovation and worship &#8211; points 1 and 4. Perhaps it&#8217;s not such a bad plan after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QXLnEj0Jc-g] Here are the five points: Flourishing cultures of innovation Outstanding leadership for ministry Prophetic social justice making Life changing worship Effective resource management The only point that, on the surface, may have a tenuous connection to Christianity is &#8220;Life &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishop-michael-birds-vision-for-the-diocese-of-niagara\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2111],"class_list":["post-3842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-diocese-of-niagara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}