{"id":1286,"date":"2019-09-22T17:30:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T23:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2019-09-19T16:01:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T22:01:47","slug":"mobile-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1286","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Continuing the <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1282\">theme<\/a> of leadership transition, we moved to Alabama in 1977 and stayed there until 1984. Then we returned in 2001 for five years. During that second visit, when I was serving on church staff as Minister of Discipleship, leading, essentially, a Navigator ministry, everyone said, \u201cYou\u2019ve got to meet David Shropshire! He\u2019s a Navigator.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I met David, about my age, came around The Navigators about the same time I did while serving in the Air Force in Denver in the early 1970s. David continues as a disciple-maker today, investing in the lives of a number of men. We had a wonderful five years together, meeting frequently for mutual encouragement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But this blog is about something I just learned when he called me earlier this week. He was one of the very early participants in <a href=\"https:\/\/nav27series.org\/\">The Navigators 2:7 Series<\/a>, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/nav27series.org\/about\/conference\/\">50th anniversary<\/a> we are celebrating next year. In fact, he and his wife, Patsy, were in the first promotional video! And he also told me this as an aside:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>When we moved to Alabama in 1985 [right after June and I left] the church asked me to lead an existing 2:7 group. It was started by some Air Force officer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I said, \u201cYes! That was me! We started a group, went through several books and then moved to Colorado.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So when God moved us out, he moved the Shropshires in! The Air Force only thinks it\u2019s in control of assignments!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Paul stayed on in Corinth for some time. Then he left the brothers and sisters and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and  Aquila. &#8230;They arrived at  Ephesus, where Paul left Priscilla and Aquila&#8230; (Acts 18.18, 19, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Do your best to come to me quickly&#8230;Crescens has gone to Galatia, and  Titus to Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is helpful to me in my ministry. I sent Tychicus to  Ephesus. (2 Timothy 4.9 &#8211; 12, NIV) <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the theme of leadership transition, we moved to Alabama in 1977 and stayed there until 1984. Then we returned in 2001 for five years. During that second visit, when I was serving on church staff as Minister of Discipleship, leading, essentially, a Navigator ministry, everyone said, \u201cYou\u2019ve got to meet David Shropshire! He\u2019s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1286\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mobile Leadership<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-kK","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}