{"id":35738,"date":"2012-11-19T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T01:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_martin_field_of_west_missouris_report_to_his_november_2012_diocesan_\/"},"modified":"2012-11-19T01:00:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T01:00:04","slug":"bishop_martin_field_of_west_missouris_report_to_his_november_2012_diocesan_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35738","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Martin Field of West Missouri&#39;s Report to his November 2012 Diocesan Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is crucial.  We, as a Church, need to  get  leaner (though not necessarily meaner).  The days of top heavy corporate-style hierarchies are over.  We must be focused on mission, not governance.  We must be outward focused at every level of the Church, having enough governance for the  marshaling of resources, enough committees for organizing ministry, enough hierarchy for holy decision making . . . but no more!<\/p>\n<p>The Church must be \u201d\u201d from congregations to General Convention \u201d\u201d committed to  God\u2019s Mission, not our favorite political agenda.  God\u2019s Vision for the world;  not business as usual.<\/p>\n<p>God has blessed his Episcopal Church with abundant resources, and through the years the Church has tried to be faithful.  The time is now upon us to renew faithfulness and be a leaner, more mission-focused Church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diowestmo.org\/docs\/2012%20Gathering%20and%20Convention\/MSF%202012%20Convention%20Address--Edition%20for%20Website%20Publishing.pdf\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is crucial. We, as a Church, need to get leaner (though not necessarily meaner). The days of top heavy corporate-style hierarchies are over. We must be focused on mission, not governance. We must be outward focused at every level<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35738\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,661,66,378,184,441,372,379,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-gen-con-2012","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-general-convention","category-parish-ministry","category-stewardship","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-diocesan-conventionsdiocesan-councils","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}