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Here is a short extract from my new book, enjoy:

Effective, strategic vision plans.

The vision of the church and the mission or strategic vision plan are two sides of the same coin, you can't have one without the other. A leader who is constantly talking about the vision from the pulpit, the leadership meetings and every other opportunity that arrives, does not help in its development. There has to be action. Therefore the vision plan itself needs to be; attainable, flexible, clear and communicable.

It is attainable in so much as it is realistic and future focused in its thrust. If we use again our example "To raise up the next generation for Jesus" we see immediately that it is futuristic in its focus and is realistic. This as opposed to the vision statement by a small church that says "seeing a billion people come to a saving knowledge of Jesus in the next ten years." While this statement is futuristic, the question asked is it realistic to expect a church of 150 people to attain this one billion mark in ten years. The first vision statement makes the assumption that every generation is reaching the next generation, while the second insists that 150 can reach a hundred million people every year for the next ten years. That is 666667 people per person per year or 1826 new people per day every day for the next 3652 days. Assuming you sleep 8 hours a day and eat 4 hours a day that leaves 12 hours which is 152 new people per hour or 2.5 people per minute. Do you get the point?

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