A Vision Clarifies Direction A characteristic of far too many North American ministries in general and churches in particular is a lack of direction. They simply don’t know where they are going, and many have not even thought about it. In Leadership, George Barna wrote of pastors and vision that “only 2% could articulate the vision for their church.” He concludes, “… that’s one reason so many pastors are ineffective; they don’t know where they’re going.”1 If they do not know where they are going—
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