Vision Casting Part 1
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Leadership Straight from Bill Hybels
Vision Casting: Part 1
Vision is still the most potent
offensive weapon in a leader's arsenal.
You can say that 1000 times
and it is more true the last time you said it.
Vision is the most potent offensive
weapon in the leader's arsenal.
Everybody wants to know
where are we going, leader?
Vision is a picture of the future
that produces passion in people.
Everybody is asking
do we exist to hold
services every 7 days?
If that is all we exist for
why should I die on this hill?
Why should I give sacrificially to this?
Why should I volunteer?
We are just holding innocuous
services every 7 days?
They want to know
what is beyond that.
Who are we trying to become?
Who does God want us to become?
Leaders have to spend
enough time on their knees
and in teams of other leaders
around the church
to hear God describe
what he wants the future of the church
to look like 3-4 years from now.
What does God want?
This is the best question I have
posed to our leadership teams.
What does God want this church
to look like 3 years from now?
That does not say what the biggest donor
or pastor want the church to look like.
But what does God want
our church to look like?
We do not want to look
like another church.
What does God want our church
to look like 3 years from now?
You pray that one to the ground.
You meet that one to the ground.
You fast that one to the ground.
God will eventually reveal
to the leaders of your church
what he wants your church
to look like 3 years from now.
If you were leading a vision team
of the remnants of your church
you would meet for the
next four Tuesday nights
and we are going to ask
what does God want our struggling
church to look like 3 years from now?
After enough conversation the
Holy Spirit will guide the group
to a point of view on that
and God wants us
to be a vibrant Acts 2 community
with a competent teacher/leader
that we surround in support
as we move into a future
for evangelism, discipleship,
social justice, or whatever.
When you get that wrestled down
and declare that to the congregation
that is what makes
people sit up straight
and walk with a bounce
in their step
and give sacrificially.
I have said this 1000 times
not only is vision a picture of the future
that produces passion in people.
But vision leaks.
The minute you fill
people up with vision
2 weeks later they ask what vision,
what church, what God.
Vision does not simply leak out of people
because you are a bad vision caster
or because they are a bad person.
They have a life to live.
Kids to raise, lawns
to mow, bills to pay.
They have enough other
stuff going on their life
that it is not front and center in
their mind every hour of every day.
Whereas those of use who
are pastors and church staff
it is front and center in our
mind all day, every day.
So we think it is front
and center in everyone's mind.
It is pushed back
by the realities of life.
Your job is to find the vision,
cast the vision
and repeat that vision until
you are almost nauseous
because you have repeated
it so many times.
Then you probably are getting close
to how often it has to be repeated
for people to keep it front and center.