God gives us a biblical wire frame, and then He leads us by the Holy Spirit to imagine a picture for our time and place of how that fleshes out and colors in. If you try to make the biblical imperatives themselves into a vision statement, the generic result is impotent. Rather than parroting key Scripture texts, you get to weave the revealed Word into a locally grown, genuinely discerned vision. As much as we’d love it to happen, the Bible’s commands don’t spell out a specific picture of your church’s