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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...

unchurched from your community, their mere presence casts many things in a new light. Axiom: Battling for change is less productive than letting the need become obvious. None of the above is meant to demean the power of direct proclamation as an instrument for change. I believe in openly sharing my vision for the church and community. I work it into sermons, prayers, fellowship times, and casual conversations. As James reminds us, “A tiny rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot wants it
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