To be honest with you this is an area that I struggle with as a leader. Not that I cannot envision where things are heading or atleast where things should be heading and it's not that I cannot catch the "God-Size Vision", but it's more along the lines of I'm not real sure that all that Vision is all that necessary all the time. Not that I don't believe that it's not important or anything, it's just that I struggle with the "where we're going" when most of the time the church doesn't even know where they are at, at this present moment to begin with.
Please hear me out on this...I do believe that vision is essential, I'm just not sure that the traditional way of getting and casting vision is really what it's all about. I mean for the most part "vision" as we call it, usually is the lead pastor's heart for their "Idealistic" way of doing church, and their heart for a people or an area. These things are not bad, they are actually very good, I just think that things get more complicated along the way. Andy Stanley talks about keeping your vision simple. How that vision comes out to play in the life of the church and as time goes by it becomes more fluid and organic, if you will. It looks differently as things come up and as people lead and take ownership of it.
That's what I love about one of Overflow's values: Discipleship Movement. Connecting, Growing, Serving, and Multiplying. It's this thing that as people get connected with the body things happen naturally at different speeds and levels, but that's why its a movement.
Just some thoughts that I was having on this and my own struggles with this. Still learning, growing and wanting to hear what you have to say on this.
"Developing vision is right-brained and organic - like composing an album" -NLC Next Level Church
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