and how can we help those in our churches become followers of that vision? Some people have a gift for being visionary, but most of us don’t. A leader, however, doesn’t have to have a gift for vision or be the author of the vision. Vision can come from a number of sources. But the leader should be the carrier of the vision—explaining and illustrating it. Leadership, in some ways, is like teaching third grade—the significant things need to be repeated. A demanding vision energizes