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Visioneering
By jeremyers1 | January 3, 2008
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and reading recently on vision. What it is, how to develop it, how to cast it, how to get others to see it, etc. One book that has really helped has been Andy Stanley’s Visioneering. I highly recommend it. I have a vision to see Free Grace Churches planted worldwide, and I think it can be done. The book is helping me figure out how to bring that into reality.
However, one surprising place that I have learned a lot about vision is in movies, and one series of movies particularly has got me thinking about the cost of pursuing vision. This movie series is the 12 hours (soon to be 18 hours) of the Lonesome Dove series. I made a post about it over at my personal blog. The basic question is “How much is your vision worth?” What would you give up to bring your vision into reality? What would you refuse to give up?
There is very little I would refuse to give up…my job, my health, my life, my finances, etc. But the one thing that I would not be able to sacrifice is my family. I think that a pastor who sacrifices his family for the church should not be pastoring, because from God’s perspective, our families are our first churches. If we fail at home, why export it into the church?
Do you agree or disagree? If you agree, what practical suggestions to you have for pastoring our wives and children?
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January 5th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Amen Jeremy. Those who neglet their families are worse then pagans seems to be close to something I remember reading somewhere.
Also, those who do not have contro over their families are not to be Church Leaders. We should model our families after God’s IMO>