{"id":262,"date":"2005-08-05T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=262"},"modified":"2005-08-05T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-05T21:05:00","slug":"imagine-where-you-want-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/imagine-where-you-want-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine where you want to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom said I need to update my blog, so here is my first entry for the day &#8211; at 3:07 p.m.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchmarketingsucks.com\">Churchmarketingsucks.com<\/A> has a link to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/austory\/content\/2005\/s1427560.htm\">interview<\/A> with Brian Houston, senior pastor at Hillsong Church Australia.<br \/>\nBrian says some intersting things about imagining where you want to be and where you want to go.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Before our church had any influence really, I sat down one day and imagined the church that I would I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d love to pastor. So I called it The Church That I See. And in that I describe the church, I talk about its worship, I talk about its mission, I talk about its people. And I would have to say that at that time, our church didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look like that, but I read it now, and it sounds like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve just sat down, and in some ways, described what, what the church has become. Which to me is quite an amazing thing.<br \/>\nI think that my sole purpose in wanting the church to be influential, is I believe in the message and I believe in the church. And you sit back and you watch a church in a country just declining, and if we do nothing, I mean it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll eventually decline into oblivion. And I just believe that we do have answers and that we can help people, and I want to make sure that the church is strong and positioned to do exactly what it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called to do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Where do you want to be? What kind of goals have you set or should you set?<br \/>\nAt my immediate position, I want to see our paper running 24 pages a week (or 12 pages twice a week). With full color ads on the front and back page. I want to see quality customer service. On time billing and collections. A paper that people are proud to call their own.<br \/>\nHow about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom said I need to update my blog, so here is my first entry for the day &#8211; at 3:07 p.m. Churchmarketingsucks.com has a link to an interview with Brian Houston, senior pastor at Hillsong Church Australia. Brian says some intersting things about imagining where you want to be and where you want to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/imagine-where-you-want-to-be\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Imagine where you want to be<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-4e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}