{"id":49365,"date":"2015-04-14T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/justin_terry_on_bp_alf_stanway-living_by_missionary_principles\/"},"modified":"2015-04-14T16:00:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T16:00:35","slug":"justin_terry_on_bp_alf_stanway-living_by_missionary_principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49365","title":{"rendered":"(TSM) Justin Terry on Bp Alf Stanway&#8211;Living by Missionary Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Alf Stanway, founding Dean\/President of Trinity School for Ministry, previously served for over thirty years in East Africa with the Church Missionary Society. He brought that society\u2019s missionary principles with him and they remain firmly embedded in our corporate life.<\/p>\n<p>I have come to see that they have wider implications for all who wish to live as the disciples of Jesus. You may even see them as a brief summary of Christian discipleship.<\/p>\n<p>1&#8211;<b>Follow God\u2019s leading<\/b>. Jesus repeatedly called people to follow Him (e.g. Matt 4:19). We are to turn from our selfish preoccupations to live with Him and for Him. It is a call to walk by faith and not by sight (2 Cor 5:7). John Venn, who first articulated these principles in 1799, explained that this means to \u201cLook for success only by the Spirit.\u201d\u009d<br \/>\n2&#8211;<b>Start small, while intending great things<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsm.edu\/news_stories\/living_by_missionary_principles\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Alf Stanway, founding Dean\/President of Trinity School for Ministry, previously served for over thirty years in East Africa with the Church Missionary Society. He brought that society\u2019s missionary principles with him and they remain firmly embedded in our corporate<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49365\">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":[36,48,175,168,182,177,34,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-missions","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology","category-theology-holy-spirit-pneumatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49365","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=49365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}