God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future (Biblia.com)

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Is your team excited about the next big dream for your church? You are a visionary leader and your church probably has a vision statement. Yet most churches are stuck in a trap of generic communication without a truly visionary plan. Just like a visionary restaurant needs a more specific focus than “serving food,” a visionary church needs something more than biblical generalizations like...

Generic vision is usually an unintended consequence. Perhaps the greatest irony is that in our efforts to be biblical we have failed to be imaginative. I opened this chapter with the analogy of an artery in need of surgery, saying that for church leaders the vital organ being starved or blocked is their imagination. Three positive motives, if misplaced, can actually work to block leaders’ imagination. Let’s call them the biases of accuracy, growth, and

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