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Renewing Your Church through Vision and Planning: 30 Strategies to Transform Your Ministry is unavailable, but you can change that!

Vision never comes with all the answers. Vision is, by definition, seeing beyond present possibilities. It means conceptualizing what a church could be like. Some pastors and church leaders burn white hot with vision. Most of us, however, feel more skilled in other areas of leadership. Our training, we feel, prepares us for one hour on Sunday morning—not for the task of guiding a group of people...

“Students, this is your new teacher, Mr. Sawyer,” said the principal, making a quick retreat. Where should I begin? So many things needed changing instantly, but some were of higher priority than others. It simply would not do for me to call out “Hey! You on the chandelier, spit out your gum!” I had to prioritize the needed changes, starting with the most obvious or intolerable, and work down the list. Gum chewing would be somewhere near the bottom. The new pastor of an established church quickly
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