Dear Friends,
Over the last several years I have read several books and listened to many talks on the importance of having a vision. We are told people respond to vision. They will follow vision. They will give to vision. They will join into vision. But without it there is nothing. Proverbs tells us, “Where there is no vision, the people perish . . .” (29:18a, KJV) or as it says in another translation “Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint . . .” (NIV). Proverbs also says “where there are no oxen, the manger is clean” (14:4), but that is another story.
Now sitting in the office of a new church in a new community I find myself returning to the topic of vision. I ask myself often what our vision is for the community of Galesburg.
Bill Hybels defines a vision as “a picture of the future that produces passion.”
Andy Stanley says to have vision is to have “a clear mental picture of what could be, fueled by the passion that it should be.”
I belileve vision is essential. Without it we perish. But how is it that something so essential is so elusive to find? Is it really possible to have a vision without eating psychedelic mushrooms?
What do you think?
Blessings,
Pastor Stephen