Friday, February 15, 2008

Fathering a Vision Builds Dynamic Relationships

I am wrestling with the concept of team building in my responsibilities as leadership development pastor. We all need to find people to do the work that a growing ministry requires. I can develop org charts, develop leadership roles and training, and recruit by gifts and abilities, but a true movement of God creates growth that far exceeds the capabilities of these tools.

It seems to me that Christ gave us some insight into team building in his relational paradym as seen in Mark 3. He said that those who were engaged in the will of God were his brothers, sisters, and mother. Those who were engaged in His vision were His family.

The relationship between leaders and followers becomes as strong and dynamic as blood relationships.

Good leaders have a vision: better leaders share a vision: great leaders invite others to join them in spreading this vision. Movements create bonds between people who have never met but embrace a common vision.

It seems that great leaders are so pregnant with vision that it requires them to birth it in other leaders who in turn birth it in others. Every "job" in the church should be driven by the vision not by the present need. Vision entergizes. A person filled with vision will do what is necessary to advance the movement in fulfillment of the vision.

How pregnant are you? Are you delivering vision or building a church? Sharing your vision will create a monument. Implanting your vision in others will create a movement. How big is your visionary family? Who are your brothers, sisters, and mothers ?

Changing lives that change the world by helping people take steps toward God to begin a journey with Christ. What a great vision!!

Just Thinking.

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